“We’re all carrying our coffins with us every day.” Or “We are all constantly cheating death.” — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Even from those very first hours, Claire was an easy and quiet child. It was as though she already knew that she… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“If they come into a house and there is a son and a mother there, they hold a gun to their heads.… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening.… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Que diga amor? Love? Hate? Speak to me of things the world has yet to truly understand, of the instant meaning of… — 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
