Quotes by : Edwidge Danticat

No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners....

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....

They are the people of creation. Their maker…gives them the sky to carry because they are so strong.....

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the....

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....

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....