People Quotes by Edwidge Danticat

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

— Edwidge Danticat

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

— Edwidge Danticat

People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

— Edwidge Danticat

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

— Edwidge Danticat

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

— Edwidge Danticat

Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.

— Edwidge Danticat

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

— Edwidge Danticat

I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.

— Edwidge Danticat

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that…

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AIDS was something that was put upon us [as haitians], and we were immediately identified with it. That is unfair. That is…

— Edwidge Danticat

I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone…

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The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only…

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People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think…

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I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant…

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More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you…

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People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this…

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Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this…

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After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It…

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We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from…

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It's not a matter of whether the reviews of your books are good or bad, it's about being taken seriously, both as…

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In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and…

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When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the…

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One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH…

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I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come…

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We all have a tendency to over generalize our individual experiences. After I've published something, I'll meet someone who says, "I'm Haitian,…

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The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening.…

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The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the…

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Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are,…

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I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I…

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Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El…

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I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s…

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I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from…

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When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something…

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For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there…

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Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we…

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I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the…

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I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not…

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Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in…

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In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were…

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The people did not elect me. I speak with one voice that may echo other people, but I am part of a…

— Edwidge Danticat