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Edwidge Danticat

"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy."

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"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy."

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Edwidge Danticat
"To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence."

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Edwidge Danticat
"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy."

Friendship

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Edwidge Danticat
"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
"On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away."

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Edwidge Danticat
"More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago."

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Edwidge Danticat
"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
"In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States."

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Edwidge Danticat
"That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist."

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Edwidge Danticat
"I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it."

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Edwidge Danticat
"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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Aberjhani

"A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days."

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Aberjhani

"True friendship is a house where we can take off our masks."

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Aberjhani

"You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find."

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Aberjhani

"To lose a worthless friend is worthy of a testimony."

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Aberjhani

"Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together,' said Merry. 'We have left all the rest behind, one after another. It seems almost like a dream that has slowly faded.''Not to me,' said Frodo. 'To me it feels more like falling asleep again."

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Aberjhani

"A true friend is a reflection of yourself."

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Aberjhani

"Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline.I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session."

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Aberjhani

"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"

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Aberjhani

"I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking."Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly."

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Aberjhani

"I to myself am dearer than a friend."

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