Edwidge Danticat Quotes
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
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There is no truly global justice.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
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My diet is not unorthodox. I just eat like anyone else - that's just how I am. Everyone is different. It is just my metabolism that keeps me this slim.
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We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.
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My brother and I became convinced that to buy and sell legally sheared vicuna hair was the only way to help the vicuna increase in numbers. If the animal becomes useful to society, people will take care of the animal; if it's not useful, they will not take care.
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Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.
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When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
