Top 120 Edwidge Danticat Quotes (2024 Update)
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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “What I learned from my father and uncle, I learned out of sequence and in fragments. This is an attempt at cohesiveness, and at re-creating a few wondrous and terrible months when their lives and mine intersected in startling ways, forcing me to look forward and back at the same time. I am writing this only because they can’t.”

101. “What I learned from my father and uncle, I learned out of sequence and in fragments. This is an attempt at cohesiveness, and at re-creating a few wondrous and terrible months when their lives and mine intersected in startling ways, forcing me to look forward and back at the same time. I am writing this only because they can’t.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “I’m just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.”

102. “I’m just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “There is a frustration too, that at moments when there’s not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people’s consciousness.”

103. “There is a frustration too, that at moments when there’s not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people’s consciousness.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up – with that heroic Delta force – people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.”

104. “Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up – with that heroic Delta force – people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.”

105. “The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “I think it’s hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.”

106. “I think it’s hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “Maybe the way death folds into the most private of spaces encourages us to underestimate the shattering weight of such a devastating loss. Perhaps uninterrupted routines and the daily flow of life force us to forget that losing a loved one to death is confounding, excruciating, sometimes even unbearable. That is, until it is our turn to grieve, and no matter how many people surround us, we end up, at one point or another, feeling totally alone.”

107. “Maybe the way death folds into the most private of spaces encourages us to underestimate the shattering weight of such a devastating loss. Perhaps uninterrupted routines and the daily flow of life force us to forget that losing a loved one to death is confounding, excruciating, sometimes even unbearable. That is, until it is our turn to grieve, and no matter how many people surround us, we end up, at one point or another, feeling totally alone.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “At times I like it when he is just a deep echo, one utterance after another filling every crevice of the room, a voice that sounds like it’s never been an infant’s whimper, a boy’s whisper, a young man’s mumble, a voice that speaks as if every word it has ever uttered has always been and will always be for me.”

108. “At times I like it when he is just a deep echo, one utterance after another filling every crevice of the room, a voice that sounds like it’s never been an infant’s whimper, a boy’s whisper, a young man’s mumble, a voice that speaks as if every word it has ever uttered has always been and will always be for me.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.”

109. “I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “In terms of the idea of long-term occupation – I have been reading a little bit more about this period – and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren’t aware of.”

110. “In terms of the idea of long-term occupation – I have been reading a little bit more about this period – and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren’t aware of.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “It’s hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they’ll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the stories themselves will always be there.”

111. “It’s hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they’ll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the stories themselves will always be there.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “I’m happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.”

112. “I’m happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you’re trying to recreate something lifelike.”

113. “I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you’re trying to recreate something lifelike.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “We’ve had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.”

114. “We’ve had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.”

115. “The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.”

116. “Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “May your love remain an eternal flame.”

117. “May your love remain an eternal flame.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “Even when I think of writing fiction, it’s being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there’s that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.”

118. “Even when I think of writing fiction, it’s being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there’s that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go.”

119. “Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “We are all bodies, but the dying body starts decaying right before our eyes. And those narratives that tell us what it’s like to live, and die, inside those bodies are helpful to all of us, because no matter how old we are, our bodies never stop being mysterious to us.”

120. “We are all bodies, but the dying body starts decaying right before our eyes. And those narratives that tell us what it’s like to live, and die, inside those bodies are helpful to all of us, because no matter how old we are, our bodies never stop being mysterious to us.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “I sometimes feel as though we are all daughters of the same mythical mother. Some of us are super direct, funny. Others are pensive, inquisitive, maudlin, bitter, sarcastic, or a combination of all those things. Yet we have all been orphaned, except by our words, which we eventually turn to in order to make sense of the impossible, the unknowable.”

121. “I sometimes feel as though we are all daughters of the same mythical mother. Some of us are super direct, funny. Others are pensive, inquisitive, maudlin, bitter, sarcastic, or a combination of all those things. Yet we have all been orphaned, except by our words, which we eventually turn to in order to make sense of the impossible, the unknowable.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “And they shared, as she put it, an impractical love.”

122. “And they shared, as she put it, an impractical love.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “Maybe we’re all dying, one breath at a time.”

123. “Maybe we’re all dying, one breath at a time.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “I felt broken at the end of the meeting, but a little closer to being free.”

124. “I felt broken at the end of the meeting, but a little closer to being free.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “I didn’t feel guilty about burning my mother’s name anymore. I knew my hurt and hers were links in a long chain and if she hurt me, it was because she was hurt, too.”

125. “I didn’t feel guilty about burning my mother’s name anymore. I knew my hurt and hers were links in a long chain and if she hurt me, it was because she was hurt, too.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “God grant us the courage to change those things we can, the serenity to accept the things we can’t, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

126. “God grant us the courage to change those things we can, the serenity to accept the things we can’t, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “She said the lottery was like love. Providence was not with her, but she was patient.”

127. “She said the lottery was like love. Providence was not with her, but she was patient.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “Your son is my friend,“... “He is my very terrible and imperfect and dear friend.”

128. “Your son is my friend,“... “He is my very terrible and imperfect and dear friend.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “Still, she heard herself say, “Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go.”

129. “Still, she heard herself say, “Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go.”

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Edwidge Danticat Quote: “She remembers him once telling her that inside the Marie-Jeanne cave, sounds carry weight and travel in waves strong enough to possibly crack some of the most fragile karst. She imagines herself standing at the lowest depths of this cave, in the Abyss, and hearing again what he whispered in her ear during their wedding dance. One thing, MJ This is our one thing now.”

130. “She remembers him once telling her that inside the Marie-Jeanne cave, sounds carry weight and travel in waves strong enough to possibly crack some of the most fragile karst. She imagines herself standing at the lowest depths of this cave, in the Abyss, and hearing again what he whispered in her ear during their wedding dance. One thing, MJ This is our one thing now.”

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