Dionne Brand quotes
-
“I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.”
-- Dionne BrandSource : Dionne Brand (1990). “No language is neutral”, McClelland & Stewart
-
“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.”
-- Dionne BrandSource : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.122, Vintage Canada
-
“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 BrandSource : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.227, Vintage Canada
-
“Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.”
-- Dionne BrandSource : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.78, Vintage Canada
-
-
“People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.”
-- Dionne BrandSource : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.18, Vintage Canada
-
“Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.”
-- Dionne BrandSource : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.64, Vintage Canada
-
“One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!”
-
Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
-
“My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.”
-
“Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.”
Source : Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books
-
Source : Garth Clark, Beatrice Wood (2001). “Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Art and Life of Beatrice Wood”, Guild
-
“I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.”
You may also like:
-
Anne Carson
Poet -
Camilla Gibb
Writer -
David Bezmozgis
Writer -
Eden Robinson
Novelist -
Fanny Howe
Poet -
Heather McHugh
Poet -
Lee Maracle
Poet -
Michelle Cliff
Author -
Nicole Brossard
Poet -
P. K. Page
Poet -
Robert Bringhurst
Poet -
Robert Kroetsch
Novelist -
Robin Blaser
Author