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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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In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were at high risk: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians. We were the only ones identified by nationality.
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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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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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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 just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.
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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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Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
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The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
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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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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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To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.
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It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
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Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
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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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Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.
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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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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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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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I can't wait for both my daughters to be old enough to read all my books. I loved it every time I saw my parents acting like more than just my parents. And I'm looking forward to that with my daughters too. I am looking forward to having them discover me as someone completely other than their mother.
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Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.
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