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Edwidge Danticat Inspirational Quotes (57)
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All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.
Edwidge Danticat
I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue?
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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.
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After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.
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I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
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We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.
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The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.
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Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
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There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.
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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.
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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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Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, We have to name it it has to have a name.
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It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
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I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.
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There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.
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I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.
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The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
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I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture.
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In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.
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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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We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.
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Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.
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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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Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.
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