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....

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

...women, brave as stars at dawn

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

I began my effort at improving my flight experiences by reading purposefully during my flights. My airplane....

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....

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