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Edwidge Danticat Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that’s 90 minutes from your shores really affects you Picture Quote #1

Even when I think of writing fiction, it’s being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there’s that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask Picture Quote #1

In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were at high risk: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians. We were the only ones identified by nationality Picture Quote #1

The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance Picture Quote #1

That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence Picture Quote #1

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I think it’s hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I think it’s hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories Picture Quote #1

Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people Picture Quote #1

The past is like the hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have this feeling that wherever you come from, you physically leave it, but it doesn’t leave you Picture Quote #1

I think daily that the country’s future is being thrown to the wind Picture Quote #1

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Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them Picture Quote #1

I’m just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing Picture Quote #1

It is the calm and silent waters that drown you Picture Quote #1

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it Picture Quote #1

They say behind mountains are more mountains Picture Quote #1

People aren’t really aware of what’s happening in other places Picture Quote #1

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Anger is a wasted emotion Picture Quote #1

... women, brave as stars at dawn Picture Quote #1

No one will love you more than you love your pain Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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. (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) 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 Quotes) Even when I think of writing fiction, it’s being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there’s that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were at high risk: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians. We were the only ones identified by nationality (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) I think it’s hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) 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 Quotes) I think it’s hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) The past is like the hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have this feeling that wherever you come from, you physically leave it, but it doesn’t leave you (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) I think daily that the country’s future is being thrown to the wind (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) I’m just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) It is the calm and silent waters that drown you (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) They say behind mountains are more mountains (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) People aren’t really aware of what’s happening in other places (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) Anger is a wasted emotion (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) ... women, brave as stars at dawn (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) No one will love you more than you love your pain (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) 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 (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) 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 (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) 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 (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) 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 (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) 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 (Edwidge Danticat Quotes) 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 (Edwidge Danticat Quotes)

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