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 Travel 78
More and more people are able to access information – thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago. Edwidge Danticat Uncategorized 72
And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. Edwidge Danticat Uncategorized 62
To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence. Edwidge Danticat Uncategorized 60
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 Women 53
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 mans hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy. Edwidge Danticat Joy 53
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 Uncategorized 46
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 Storytelling 40
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. Edwidge Danticat Children 35
No women like you dont 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 Women 25
I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind. Edwidge Danticat Country 25

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