Edwidge Danticat Quotes
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I've never been a partier.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
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I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
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Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.
