Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticatis a Haitian–American novelist and short story writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 January 1969
people happenings
People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.
school sacrifice tree
You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.
pain love-you love-you-more
No one will love you more than you love your pain.
cities government people
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.
home trying complicated
Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.
writing interesting people
It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
writing dark hair
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.
emotion
Anger is a wasted emotion.
stars moon sky
Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.
people haiti rich
Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
said interest policy
Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
people trying alternatives
People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.
country thinking cnn
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.
military school army
The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there were Southern white officers, who led an army that crushed the indigenous resistance - the cacos. A high-ranking U.S. officer said when he arrived, "To think these niggers speak French!" Later, Haitian officers attended the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning. The threat from the U.S. is something that is always hanging over people's heads: If we don't behave, we'll have occupation again.