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.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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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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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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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'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.
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I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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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.
