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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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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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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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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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Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.
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When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
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People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.
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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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Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
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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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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'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 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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We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.
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You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.
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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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It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
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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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Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.
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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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