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Edwidge Danticat

"I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles."

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"I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles."

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

History

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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
"I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles."

Dream

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Edwidge Danticat
"On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way."

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Edwidge Danticat
"Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money."

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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
"People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti."

People

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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."

People

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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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Aberjhani

"I did it,... I talked to Stephen King in a dream... not once but twice in two dreams. - As far from here I can tell you it's awesome... I did it... I jerkoff on a dream... dreaming that I'm jerking off.... I did it... I fucked a girl in a dream!"

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Aberjhani

"This was like walking the line between dream and sleep. The night-sharp balance of being asleep enough to dream and awake enough to remember what he wanted."

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Aberjhani

"It is good to have a dream, as long as the dream does not have you."

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Aberjhani

"When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, "Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end."

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Aberjhani

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

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Aberjhani

"Dreaming pleasantly is spiritual."

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Aberjhani

"Discover your true passion in life. Turn it into a big dream. Promise yourself that quitting isn't an option, and then work tirelessly on it until its reality becomes your new present. There is truly more to life than just working for a paycheck."

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Aberjhani

"It is only your dreams that will keep you alive."

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Aberjhani

"Is safety the 'dream' that will kill all of my other 'dreams?' For the truth is, no 'real' dream is safe."

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Aberjhani

"World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams."

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