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David Chariandy Quotes

born 1969 Canada

David Chariandy (born 1969 in Scarborough, Metropolitan Toronto) is a Canadian writer.

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The most important opportunity offered by increased exposure is the chance to focus with greater faith and intensity upon the hard work of writing.

I’m often inspired by the everyday beauty and resilience of black and brown families caught up in deeply challenging circumstances. I wanted to capture this ordinary beauty in its variations and intensity.

Canada, in fact, has had its own legacies of slavery, segregation, state violence, and systemic impoverishment; and Canada, no less than any other site of the African diaspora, boasts brilliant affirmations of Black life and creativity, powerfully “here,” but in complex intercultural and diasporic dialogue with the world.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Chariandy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.