I stepped into the cool opening of the Door of No Return. My feet landed where my thoughts were. This is the trick of the door—to step through and be where you want to be. Our ancestors were bewildered because they had a sense of origins—some country, some village, some family where they belonged and from which they were rent. We, on the other hand, have no such immediate sense of belonging, only of drift.

— A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand (Page 118)