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

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

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness. - Edwidge Danticat

That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist. - Edwidge Danticat

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy. - Edwidge Danticat

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it. - Edwidge Danticat

People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti. - Edwidge Danticat

People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places. - Edwidge Danticat

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

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

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