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We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

Edwidge Danticat

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Edwidge Danticat
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Port au Prince
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Beautiful
Past
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Things
Creep
Creeps
Memories

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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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It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
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Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.
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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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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 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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It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
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I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture.
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Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
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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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Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.
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I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.
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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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When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!
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The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
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I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.
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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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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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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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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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