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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.
Edwidge Danticat
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Edwidge Danticat
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 19
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Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.
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In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.
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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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It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
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My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.
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America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934.
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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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Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.
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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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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
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That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti.
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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 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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There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, Cut their heads off, burn their houses.
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It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
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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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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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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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We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.
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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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