Dionne Brand famous quotes
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I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.
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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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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.
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Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.
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People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.
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Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.
-- Dionne Brand
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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
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Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.
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My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.
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Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.
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Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
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