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Edwidge Danticat quotes

Haitian Author January 19, 1969

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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 or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city. Edwidge Danticat
More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago. Edwidge Danticat
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness. Edwidge Danticat
On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. Edwidge Danticat
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance. Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat quote: "...women, brave as stars at dawn"
...women, brave as stars at dawn Edwidge Danticat
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 were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. Edwidge Danticat
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 to be claimed. Edwidge Danticat
People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything. Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat quote: "The soldiers can come and do with us what they want. That..."
The soldiers can come and do with us what they want. That makes papa feel weak, she says. He gets angry when he feels weak. Edwidge Danticat
I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there. Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat quote: "Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems..."
Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars. Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat quote: "You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only..."
You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice. Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat quote: "I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the..."
I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind. Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat quote: "When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful..."
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. Edwidge Danticat

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