Top 19 Dionne Brand Quotes
#1. Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.
Dionne Brand
#2. I don't need made-up strength. I'm strong enough on my own - me, Meira, no magic or conduit or anything.
Sara Raasch
#3. The greatest enemy we can face is ourselves, and the greatest battle is against the darkness within.
Derek Landy
#4. A boat, even a wrecked and wretched boat
still has all the possibilities of moving
Dionne Brand
#5. Nations are like men - growing old, never young. My son had the misfortune to be a young man of an old nation.
Gene Wolfe
#6. "With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.
Alexander Pope
#7. She could assassinate streets with her eyes
Dionne Brand
#8. Dance floors would bleed from the knife of her dress
Dionne Brand
#9. 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 Brand
#10. 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
#11. Dali's Reclining Woman Wearing a Chemise looks like a dead slaughtered doll, and I can see preying eagles, broken arrows, and jazz musicians in Jackson Pollock, and because I believe that Man Ray and Duchamp were lovers.
Dionne Brand
#12. They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.
Dionne Brand
#13. People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.
Dionne Brand
#14. Education is such a noble profession, it's a wonderful way to serve.
Erin Gruwell
#15. So don't tell me how love will rescue me, I was carnivorous about love, I ate love to the ankles, my thighs are gnawed with love still and yet I cannot have loved, since living was all I could do and for that, I was caged in bone spur endlessly
Dionne Brand
#16. If I am peaceful ... is not peace,/is getting used to harm.
Dionne Brand
#17. I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.
Dionne Brand
#18. Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.
Dionne Brand
#19. It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious drama of a childhood living room. When you think that you are in the grace of a dance you come upon something hard.
Dionne Brand
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