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Edwidge Danticat

"Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home."

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"Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home."

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"Don't give up on yourself, your dreams and your family."

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"It is wonderful to live together as brothers and sisters."

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"Children observe everything with caution."

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"Children are holy angels."

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"Children are sacred beings."

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"Blessed your mum, who carried you in a womb for nine months."

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"Children are the most fearless souls on earth."

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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."

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"Fatherhood is sacred."

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Amber Hurdle

"Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time."

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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
"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
"Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now."

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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
"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
"I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind."

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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
"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."

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Edwidge Danticat
"In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way."

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Edwidge Danticat
"In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of."

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