Edwidge Danticat Quotes
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I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.
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You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.
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We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.
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Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.
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Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . .
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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
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For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.
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The people did not elect me. I speak with one voice that may echo other people, but I am part of a group of people. That's not distancing yourself from a community, that's also allowing the space for others to speak for themselves.
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You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.
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More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.
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The girl she said, I didn’t tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don’t want to lose them.
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On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.
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Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.
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Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
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...women, brave as stars at dawn.
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I hope to be a good role model for my daughters.
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To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.
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In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.
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They say behind mountains are more mountains.
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When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!
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When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."
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It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.