"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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Source : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.64, Vintage Canada

Dionne Brand

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“Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived.”
“Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.”
“In high school I was voted the girl most likely to become a nun. That may not be impressive to you, but it was quite an accomplishment at the Hebrew Academy.”
“I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“She said people found running to something easier than running from something.”
“How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.”
“So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.”
“If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our minds left behind in battle.”

Source : Margarita Engle (2008). “The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom”, p.72, Macmillan

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