Edwidge Danticat Quotes
I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.Edwidge Danticat
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
Eddie Redmayne -
The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
Madeleine Albright -
One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
Carla Hall -
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.
Fabrice Grinda
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens -
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett -
Passion without focus can lead you astray.
Ken Auletta -
There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.
Martin Freeman -
The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing.
Chili Davis -
There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.
Matt Gallagher
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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.
Andy Dick -
There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.
Janet Jackson -
Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.
Quinn Norton -
Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.
Zachary Schomburg -
Underground, the stars are legend.
Catherine Fisher
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
Charles Handy -
Corruption is... the result of a decadent political regime. We are absolutely convinced that this evil is the main cause of social and economic inequality, and also that corruption is to blame for the violence in our country.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador -
I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.
Edwidge Danticat