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.
Edwidge DanticatWe still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.
Edwidge DanticatWhen you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!
Edwidge DanticatLife's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.
Edwidge Danticat