Edwidge Danticat

Author

1969-01-19

Quotes by Edwidge Danticat

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

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• 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.

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• Old age is not meant to be survived alone, Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• Old age is not meant to be survived alone, Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.

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

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• I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

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