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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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Edwidge Danticat
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 19
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Port au Prince
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
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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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Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in 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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The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
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Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
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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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It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
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...women, brave as stars at dawn
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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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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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We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.
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