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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. — Edwidge Danticat

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. — Edwidge Danticat

We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you. — Edwidge Danticat

I hope to be a good role model for my daughters. — Edwidge Danticat

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice. — Edwidge Danticat

Our fatigue limited our desire to talk. Besides, each person's story did nothing except bring you closer to your own pain. — Edwidge Danticat

There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses." — Edwidge Danticat

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States. — Edwidge Danticat

They say behind mountains are more mountains. — Edwidge Danticat

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form. — Edwidge Danticat

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. — Edwidge Danticat

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done! — Edwidge Danticat

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing. — Edwidge Danticat

I owe Oprah and that show a tremendous debt. — Edwidge Danticat

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy. — Edwidge Danticat

Art is a luxury but also a necessity. — Edwidge Danticat

No one will ever love you more than you love your pain," he had replied, his words ringing even louder in the dark. She — Edwidge Danticat

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. — Edwidge Danticat

Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars. — Edwidge Danticat

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

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me. — Edwidge Danticat

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti. — Edwidge Danticat

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 — Edwidge Danticat

...women, brave as stars at dawn — Edwidge Danticat

The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time. — Edwidge Danticat

Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood. — Edwidge Danticat

Two mountains can never meet but perhaps you and I can meet again. I am coming to your waterfall — Edwidge Danticat

Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask. — Edwidge Danticat

Our faith is a mishmash of many things. We believe in family, in music and art, but we mostly believe in each other" -Giselle — Edwidge Danticat

That night, I slept hugging my secret. — Edwidge Danticat

It is the calm and silent waters that drown you. — Edwidge Danticat

We already have posterity," I said.
"When?'
"We were babies and we grew old — Edwidge Danticat

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. — Edwidge Danticat

They say a girl becomes a woman when she loses her mother. You, child, were born a woman. — Edwidge Danticat

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. — Edwidge Danticat

She made sadness beautiful — Edwidge Danticat

Sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us (Danticat 19). — Edwidge Danticat

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. — Edwidge Danticat

Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them. — Edwidge Danticat

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. — Edwidge Danticat

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

I wish I could've done more for her, but some sorrows were simply too individual to share. — Edwidge Danticat

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication. — Edwidge Danticat

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters. — Edwidge Danticat

Posing is death. I think when you make people pose for a photograph, you kill them. — Edwidge Danticat

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. — Edwidge Danticat

The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is. — Edwidge Danticat

Anger is a wasted emotion. — Edwidge Danticat

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. — Edwidge Danticat

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

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis. — Edwidge Danticat

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." — Edwidge Danticat

Writing is the way I participate in the struggle. — Edwidge Danticat

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. — Edwidge Danticat

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. — Edwidge Danticat

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

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

You thought that if you didn't tell the stories, the sky would fall on your head. — Edwidge Danticat

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

No one will love you more than you love your pain. — Edwidge Danticat

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

What if my becoming fully aware of the frequency of such moments makes me terrified to leave my house? — Edwidge Danticat

Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people. — Edwidge Danticat

I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did. — Edwidge Danticat

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it. — Edwidge Danticat

To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level. — Edwidge Danticat

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. — Edwidge Danticat

People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy. — Edwidge Danticat