212 Quotes by Edwidge Danticat

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

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.

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.

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.

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

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

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.