Edwidge Danticat Quotes

I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.

Edwidge Danticat

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• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

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• I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.

  

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• Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

  

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• I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

  

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• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

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• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  

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• My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.

  

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• I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.

  

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• I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

  

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• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

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• If the constitution goes, I go.

  

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• My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

  

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• It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

  

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• All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.

  

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• Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.

  

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• An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

  

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• I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Writing
  • Struggle
  • Therapy