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
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
I am very timid about speaking for the collective. I can say what I see, I can say what I've heard, I… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people. — 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
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
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
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
It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers… — 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
When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something… — 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
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
“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
