Edwidge Danticat Quotes
Top 68 wise famous quotes and sayings by Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.
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.
We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.
You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.
Our fatigue limited our desire to talk. Besides, each person's story did nothing except bring you closer to your own pain.
There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses."
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!
Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
No one will ever love you more than you love your pain," he had replied, his words ringing even louder in the dark. She
For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.
Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.
I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
So much had fallen into the sea. Hats fell in to the sea. Hearts fell into the sea. So much had fallen into the sea
Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
Our faith is a mishmash of many things. We believe in family, in music and art, but we mostly believe in each other" -Giselle
You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them like amulets to protect us from evil spells.
Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.
For so long this had been my life, but it was all in the past. Now we all had to try and find the future.
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
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.
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.
The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.
I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.
I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."
The soldiers can come and do with us what they want. That makes papa feel weak, she says. He gets angry when he feels weak.
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.
People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.
What if my becoming fully aware of the frequency of such moments makes me terrified to leave my house?
I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.
It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.