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No one will love you more than you love your pain.

Edwidge Danticat

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Edwidge Danticat
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 19
Author
Novelist
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Port au Prince
Pain
Love

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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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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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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 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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It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
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Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
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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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We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.
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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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Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
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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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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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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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People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.
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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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Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
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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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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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Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.
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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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