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
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my… — 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
