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title: "1 Born City Quotes By Dionne Brand"
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> [“They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/they-were-born-in-the-city-from-people-born-elsewhere/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

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## More by Dionne Brand

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/if-i-see-someone-i-see-the-ghost-of-them-the-air-around-them-and/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [“The sea sounded like a thousand secrets, all whispered at the same time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/the-sea-sounded-like-a-thousand-secrets-all-whispered-at-the-same-time/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/i-felt-the-unordinary-romance-of-women-who-love-women-for-the-first/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/people-here-believe-in-uncontrollable-passion-in-mad-rages-and-in-the/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [“She could assassinate streets with her eyes”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/she-could-assassinate-streets-with-her-eyes/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [“..would I have had a different life failing this embrace with broken things, iridescent veins, ecstatic bullets, small cracks in the brain, would I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/would-i-have-had-a-different-life-failing-this-embrace-with-broken/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [“And on the sidewalks, after they've emerged from the stations, after being sandpapered by the jostling and scraping that a city like this does,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/and-on-the-sidewalks-after-they-ve-emerged-from-the-stations-after/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [“Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/angie-was-a-border-crosser-a-wetback-a-worker-in-the-immigrant/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [“There were Italian neighbourhood and Vietnamese neighbourhoods in this city; there are Chinese ones and Ukrainian ones and Pakistani ones and Korean ones and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/there-were-italian-neighbourhood-and-vietnamese-neighbourhoods-in/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [“I run each morning, two, three, sometimes four kilometers. Part of March, all of April, all of May. I can’t run five. I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/i-run-each-morning-two-three-sometimes-four-kilometers-part-of-march/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/cities-collect-people-stray-and-lost-and-deliberate-arrivants/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [“It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious drama of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/it-is-not-the-job-of-writers-to-life-our-spirits-books-simply-do-what/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [“They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/they-were-born-in-the-city-from-people-born-elsewhere/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [“dance floors would bleed from the knife of her dress”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/dance-floors-would-bleed-from-the-knife-of-her-dress/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

> [“a boat, even a wrecked and wretched boat still has all the possibilities of moving”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dionne-brand/a-boat-even-a-wrecked-and-wretched-boat-still-has-all-the/)

[Dionne Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dionne-brand/)

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