Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a.... : Quote by 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 like a woman instead of a child. Everybody thought she was a whore. She wasn’t. She tried to step across the border of who she was and who she might be. They wouldn’t let her. She didn’t believe it herself so she stepped across into a whole other country. ”

Dionne Brand
  • From : What We All Long For
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