I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture.
Edwidge DanticatWe need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.
Edwidge DanticatCreate dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.
Edwidge DanticatFor the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.
Edwidge DanticatWhen people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the sticking of pins in dolls. It's very different than Vodou - which is a religion that comes to Haiti from our ancestors in Africa. I want to differentiate it from the stereotypical, sensationalized view that we see of the religion.
Edwidge Danticat