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Edwidge Danticat quotes

Haitian Author January 19, 1969

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In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of. Edwidge Danticat
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness. Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat quote: "Anger is a wasted emotion."
Anger is a wasted emotion. Edwidge Danticat
On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way. Edwidge Danticat
People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti. Edwidge Danticat
In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way. Edwidge Danticat
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment. Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat quote: "It is the calm and silent waters that drown you."
It is the calm and silent waters that drown you. Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat quote: "They say behind mountains are more mountains."
They say behind mountains are more mountains. Edwidge Danticat
I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when its at its extremes and thats what they end up knowing about it. Edwidge Danticat
Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of. Edwidge Danticat
Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now. Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat quote: "People who want alternative information have to try so hard to..."
People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it. Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat quote: "In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very..."
In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States. Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat quote: "People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places."
People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places. Edwidge Danticat

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