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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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"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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Donna Grant

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

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Donna Grant

"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

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Donna Grant

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

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Donna Grant

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

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Donna Grant

"No holidays, no country."

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Donna Grant

"I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone."

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Donna Grant

"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

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Donna Grant

"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

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Donna Grant

"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."

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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
"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
"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 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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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
"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
"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
"You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city."

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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
"People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places."

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