Edwidge Danticat Quotes

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them l...

I want to figure out how people can go on with their lives when mine has changed so much. I want to ...

They are the people of creation. Their maker…gives them the sky to carry because they are so strong....

There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a ...

...women, brave as stars at dawn

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

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time....

I began my effort at improving my flight experiences by reading purposefully during my flights. My a...

I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their ...

When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempti...

No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark cor...

The immigrant artist shares with all other artists the desire to interpret and possibly remake his o...

Those who die young, they are cheated,” she said. “Not cheated out of life, because life is a penanc...

Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.

Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden...

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on ...