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
In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play… — 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
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
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
“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