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Edwidge Danticat
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Edwidge Danticat
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 19
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Port au Prince
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Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.
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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.
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People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.
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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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People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.
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Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.
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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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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.
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And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
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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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When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!
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I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people can still make their careers this way. Will whatever comes next allow people to be able to own their ideas and be able to take time to develop them?
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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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No one will love you more than you love your pain.
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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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Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
Edwidge Danticat
To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.
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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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Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
Edwidge Danticat
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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