Dionne Brand Quotes

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Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.

Dionne Brand

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

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People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

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If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they've been. If I see a city I see it's living ghostliness—the stray looks, the dying hands. I see it's needs and its discomforts locked in apartments.

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Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

Dionne Brand

What is the
political position of stars?

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Grace. Is Grace, yes. And I take it, quiet, quiet, like thiefing sugar.

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I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand

Born: January 7, 1953 (age 73)

Bio: Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third Poet Laureate from September 2009 to November 2012.

Known for:

What we all long for (2005)
A map to the door of no return (2001)
Land to Light On (1997)
In Another Place, Not Here (1996)
At the full and change of the moon (1999)

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