Quotes by Edwidge Danticat

About Edwidge Danticat:

Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian-American author.
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Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.

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Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy...

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There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her finger...

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They are the people of creation. Their maker…gives them the sky to carry because they are so strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your...

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I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

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The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.

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People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

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These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

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No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

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When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are th...

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Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

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Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.

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I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

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To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

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There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

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That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.

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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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People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

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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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People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

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Author Bio

  • NameEdwidge Danticat
  • DescriptionNovelist, short story writer, memoirist
  • BornJanuary 19, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program