Dionne Brand Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.”
-- Dionne Brand

#Romance #Firsts #Sexuality
“If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where theyâ€™ve been. If I see a city I see itâ€™s living ghostlinessâ€”the stray looks, the dying hands. I see itâ€™s needs and its discomforts locked in apartments.”
-- Dionne Brand

#Air #Hands #Cities
“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

#Moving #Book #Eye
“Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.”
-- Dionne Brand

#Cities #People #Lost
“People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.”
-- Dionne Brand

#Believe #Passion #People
“Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.”
-- Dionne Brand

#Fashion #Communication #Language

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