To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses." — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It… — 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
When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States. — 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
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