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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.
Dionne Brand
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Dionne Brand
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 7
Film Director
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Port-of-Spain
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