All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.
Edwidge DanticatI think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.
Edwidge DanticatSomeone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
Edwidge DanticatIf a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
Edwidge DanticatI would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.
Edwidge DanticatThere are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive.
Edwidge Danticat