Quotes by : Edwidge Danticat

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

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

Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.

...women, brave as stars at dawn

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

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

You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them like....

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....