I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Often when you're an immigrant writing in English, people think it's primarily a commercial choice. But for many of us, it's a… — 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
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
AIDS was something that was put upon us [as haitians], and we were immediately identified with it. That is unfair. That is… — 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
More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything. — 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
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
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
The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening.… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need… — 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
![“AIDS was something that was put upon us [as haitians], and we were immediately identified with it. That is unfair. That is unjust. I always say, "We are all people living with AIDS." It's not like you can avoid it. It's part of our world.” quote by Edwidge Danticat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e4/edwidge-danticat-2559_aids_aids-was-something-that-was-put-upon-us_2877231.jpg)
