Edwidge Danticat Quotes

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• You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate…
• Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest…
• For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great…
• I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme.…
• No one will love you more than you love your pain.
• You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.
• We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.
• I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your…
• There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating…
• Jephthah called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a…
• More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things.…
• I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real…
• Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there…
• And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
• Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still…
• In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.
• Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force -…
• In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see…
• Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French…
• People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

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