Edwidge Danticat Quotes About Mask

Quotes about: Mask

• I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Children, Thinking, Shields

  Interview with David Barsamia, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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

  Edwidge Danticat

  Children, Glasses, Adults

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

• When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

  Edwidge Danticat

  Glasses, People, Littles

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

• Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies to tell a greater truth. The story is a mask; the characters you create are masks. That appeals to me. Aside from that, too, in the carnival the masks were beautiful, and offered a vision of Haitian creativity.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Beautiful, Lying, Creativity

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

• 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

  Liars, Writing, Thinking

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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