Edwidge Danticat Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• 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

  Writing, Knowing, People

  Edwidge Danticat (2011). “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work”, p.10, Vintage

• 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

  Dream, Art, Block

• 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

  People, Risk, Heroin

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

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