"In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29……" — Edwidge Danticat
"In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States."
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53 Quotes by Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and…
- Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind.…
- For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore.…
- I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it…
- 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…
- There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam,…
- Jephthah called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading…
- More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are…
- I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There…
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