People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done! — 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
Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant… — 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
The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that… — 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… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there… — 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
In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of whether the reviews of your books are good or bad, it's about being taken seriously, both as… — 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
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
On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come… — 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
We all have a tendency to over generalize our individual experiences. After I've published something, I'll meet someone who says, "I'm Haitian,… — 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
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
I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I… — 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
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
The people did not elect me. I speak with one voice that may echo other people, but I am part of a… — 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… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not… — 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
Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
There is this split between the Haiti of before the earthquake and the Haiti of after the earthquake. So when I'm writing… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will… — 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
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
My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were… — 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
![“Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it…” quote by Edwidge Danticat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d62/edwidge-danticat-2559_earthquakes_language-is-such-a-powerful-thing-after_2355536.jpg)
