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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 23 quotes by Edwidge Danticat Edwidge Danticat Danticat, September 2007 Born (1969-01-19) January 19, 1969 (age 46) Port-au-Prince, Haiti Occupation Writer Nationality Haitian American Period 1994–present Genre Novels, short stories Edwidge Danticat (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ɛdwidʒ dãtika]; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American author. Read full biography of Edwidge Danticat → 1 2 Ctrl → 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... → 0 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... → 0 And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. 0 I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind. 0 In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States. 0 People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places. 0 People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it. 0 Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy. 0 Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua.... → 0 In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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