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When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!
Edwidge Danticat
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Edwidge Danticat
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 19
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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 see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.
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Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
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I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to
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Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.
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...women, brave as stars at dawn
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Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.
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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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And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
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I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.
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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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People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.
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When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem We Wear the Mask.
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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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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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No one will love you more than you love your pain.
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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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The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
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We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.
Edwidge Danticat
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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