“She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.”

— Nalo Hopkinson , book Brown Girl in the Ring

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 13 (p. 230)

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Jamaican Canadian writer 1960

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