Edwidge Danticat Quotes

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• 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.

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  Rain, Love Is, Pouring

  Edwidge Danticat (2003). “Breath, Eyes, Memory”, p.48, Soho Press

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• Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . .

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  Monday, Writing, Night

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• Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.

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  People, Hiding, Should

  FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Oct 31, 2013

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• 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.

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  Writing, Knowing, People

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

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• I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to

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  Daughter, Children, Memories

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• Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

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  Believe, Miracle

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• 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.

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  People, Empathy, Suffering

  "Edwidge Danticat: The “Create Dangerously” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. November 23, 2010.

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• We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

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  Needs, Literature, Humans

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

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  Writing, Hair, Unity

  FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Jul 12, 2011

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• 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.

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  Black, Thumbprints, Misery

  "The Farming of Bones". Book by Edwidge Danticat, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1998.

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• No one will love you more than you love your pain.

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  Pain, Love You, Love You More

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• 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.

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  Tiny, Cups, Waterfalls

  Edwidge Danticat (2004). “Krik? Krak!”, p.14, Soho Press

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• Salt is a powerful symbol in Haiti, as elsewhere. Salt of the earth, for example is an American phrase. In Haiti, myth and legend has it that if you are turned into a zombie, if someone gives you a taste of salt, then you can come back to life. And in the life of the fishermen, there are so many little things about salt that I wanted to incorporate. The salt in the air. The crackling of salt in the fire. There's all this damage, this peeling of the fishing boats from the sea salt. But there is also healing from it, sea baths that are supposed to heal all kinds of aches and wounds.

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  Powerful, Healing, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• ...women, brave as stars at dawn

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  Stars, Brave, Dawn

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• It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

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  Starting Over, Letters, Easy

  FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Oct 29, 2013

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• Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25

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  Strong, Sky, People

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• To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.

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  Mind, Peace Of Mind, Levels

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2010.

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

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  Thinking, Drawing, Fiction

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.

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• When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the sticking of pins in dolls. It's very different than Vodou - which is a religion that comes to Haiti from our ancestors in Africa. I want to differentiate it from the stereotypical, sensationalized view that we see of the religion.

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  Thinking, Views, People

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

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• Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

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  Struggle, Writing, Way

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. May 2010.

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• Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

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  Character, Working It, Involved

  "Edwidge Danticat: The “Create Dangerously” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. November 23, 2010.

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

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  Believe, Reading, People

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. June 2010.

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• The girl she said, I didn’t tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don’t want to lose them.

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  Girl, Home, Heart

  FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Nov 01, 2013

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• I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.

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  Sea, Sky, Names

  Edwidge Danticat (2004). “Krik? Krak!”, p.8, Soho Press

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

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  Believe, People, Hopeful

  Edwidge Danticat (2004). “Krik? Krak!”, p.16, Soho Press

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