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

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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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"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
"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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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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Aberjhani

"Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'..."

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"Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last."

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Aberjhani

"If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life."

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Aberjhani

"Try again, you have millions of alternatives. Fill yourself with the bullets of hope and you will kill failure with one shot."

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Aberjhani

"Stay strong; disappointments will not stay for that long. Wipe away your tears; be ready to receive cheers from people all over the world, beginning from you!"

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"Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be."

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"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."

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"Be brave enough to listen to your heart, be bold enough to hope for the best."

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"Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith."

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"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."

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