No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Medicare rewards doctors far better for doing procedures than for assessing whether they should be done at all.” — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up.… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Instead I dreamt of walking out of the world, of spending all my time inside with no one to talk to, and no one… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
