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Edwidge Danticat (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ɛdwidʒ dãtika]; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer.

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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.

Love, Love Is, Pouring, Rain, Starts

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

Character, Characters, Involved, Work, Working It

We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.

Children, Fields, Haiti, School, Taken, Work

I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue?

Airplane, Coming, Issues, National, People, Security

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

Book, Cracking, Firsts, Process, Sinking, Spine

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.

Creating, Different, Force, Messes, People, Realizing

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

Aware, Happenings, People, Places

This was a "bad" example for U. S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.

Country, Embargo, Example, Slaves, States, United States

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

Haiti, Part, People, Stories, Trying

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

Beautiful, Creep, Keep, Memories, Past

There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive.

Dangerous, Like, Mean, Osip, Reading, Writing

I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.

Corner, Fold, Struggle, Tools, Writing

It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.

Calm, Drown, Silent, Water, Waters

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.

Art, Block, Dream, Foreign, Nothing, Requires

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

Believe, People, Reading, Working

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.

1980S, Heroin, People, Risk

The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.

Children, Country, Destiny, Right, Twenty

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

Against, Believe, Hope, Hopeful, People, Use

Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.

Empty, Moon, Sky, Stars, Though

No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

Control, Dark, Hair, Like, Women, Writing

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