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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.
Edwidge Danticat
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Edwidge Danticat
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 19
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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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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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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
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...women, brave as stars at dawn
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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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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'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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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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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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We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.
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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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Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.
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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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There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, Cut their heads off, burn their houses.
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I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.
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The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
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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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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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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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No one will love you more than you love your pain.
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