Quotes by : Edwidge Danticat

I want to figure out how people can go on with their lives when mine has changed so much. I want to relearn....

Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden....

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

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

When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting....

The immigrant artist shares with all other artists the desire to interpret and possibly remake his or....

Those who die young, they are cheated,” she said. “Not cheated out of life, because life is a penance,....

There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story....

I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their children's....

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time.....