“Hearing, they say, is one of the last senses to go. My mother smiled. I tearfully asked her, "Mommy, can you see… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I can't wait for both my daughters to be old enough to read all my books. I loved it every time I… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“The only way to save them is to immediately sever them from the place where they are born. Otherwise they will always… — 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
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“As immigrant artists for whom so much has been sacrificed, so many dreams have been deferred, we already doubt so much. Who… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them… — 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
