Edwidge Danticat Quotes
And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
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It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
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Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.
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I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.
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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
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We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.
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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
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It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti. I was twelve years old, and the building I was living in had primarily Haitians. A lot of people got fired from their jobs. At school, sometimes in gym class, we'd be separated because teachers were worried about what would happen if we bled. So there was really this intense discrimination.
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Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.
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When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
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And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
