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
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
“Doesn’t she realize that the life she is living is an accident of fortune? Doesn’t she know that she is an exception… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“They are the people of creation. Their maker…gives them the sky to carry because they are so strong. These people do not… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of… — 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… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Salt is a powerful symbol in Haiti, as elsewhere. Salt of the earth, for example is an American phrase. In Haiti, myth… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“For so long this had been my life, but it was all in the past. Now we all had to try and… — 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
