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1. "Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you." ~ Edwidge Danticat
2. "Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25" ~ Edwidge Danticat
3. "If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters." ~ Edwidge Danticat
4. "Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them." ~ Edwidge Danticat
5. "I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there." ~ Edwidge Danticat
6. "...women, brave as stars at dawn" ~ Edwidge Danticat
7. "It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back." ~ Edwidge Danticat
8. "Anger is a wasted emotion." ~ Edwidge Danticat
9. "All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too." ~ Edwidge Danticat
10. "The girl she said, I didn't tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don't want to lose them." ~ Edwidge Danticat
11. "It is the calm and silent waters that drown you." ~ Edwidge Danticat
12. "So much had fallen into the sea. Hats fell in to the sea. Hearts fell into the sea. So much had fallen into the sea" ~ Edwidge Danticat
13. "You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice." ~ Edwidge Danticat
14. "Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms." ~ Edwidge Danticat
15. "They say behind mountains are more mountains." ~ Edwidge Danticat
16. "Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars." ~ Edwidge Danticat
17. "I wish I could've done more for her, but some sorrows were simply too individual to share." ~ Edwidge Danticat
18. "And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934." ~ Edwidge Danticat
19. "I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind." ~ Edwidge Danticat
20. "People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places." ~ Edwidge Danticat
21. "People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it." ~ Edwidge Danticat
22. "Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy." ~ Edwidge Danticat
23. "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." ~ Edwidge Danticat
24. "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." ~ Edwidge Danticat
25. "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." ~ Edwidge Danticat
26. "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." ~ Edwidge Danticat
27. "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." ~ Edwidge Danticat
28. "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." ~ Edwidge Danticat
29. "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." ~ Edwidge Danticat
30. "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." ~ Edwidge Danticat
31. "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." ~ Edwidge Danticat
32. "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." ~ Edwidge Danticat
33. "Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood." ~ Edwidge Danticat
34. "People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything." ~ Edwidge Danticat
35. "As immigrant artists for whom so much has been sacrificed, so many dreams have been deferred, we already doubt so much. Who do we think we are? We think we are people who risked not existing at all. People who might have had a mother and father killed, either by a government or nature, even before we were born. Some of us think we are accidents of literacy. I do." ~ Edwidge Danticat
36. "Que diga amor? Love? Hate? Speak to me of things the world has yet to truly understand, of the instant meaning of each bird's call, of a child's secret thoughts in her mother's womb, of the measured rhythmical time of every man and woman's breath, of the true colors of the inside of the moon, of the larger miracles in small things, the deeper mysteries." ~ Edwidge Danticat
37. ". "Manman tells papa, you cannot let them kill somebody just because you are afraid. Papa says, oh yes, you can let them kill somebody because you are afraid. They are the law. It is their right." ~ Edwidge Danticat
38. "Our fatigue limited our desire to talk. Besides, each person's story did nothing except bring you closer to your own pain." ~ Edwidge Danticat
39. "For so long this had been my life, but it was all in the past. Now we all had to try and find the future." ~ Edwidge Danticat
40. "If they come into a house and there is a son and a mother there, they hold a gun to their heads. They make the son sleeps with his mother. If it is a daughter and a father, they do the same thing." ~ Edwidge Danticat
41. "The soldiers can come and do with us what they want. That makes papa feel weak, she says. He gets angry when he feels weak." ~ Edwidge Danticat
42. "Even from those very first hours, Claire was an easy and quiet child. It was as though she already knew that she could not afford to be picky or make demands." ~ Edwidge Danticat
43. "Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them." ~ Edwidge Danticat
44. "Jephthah called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, 'Let me cross over,' the men of Gilead asked him, 'Are you an Ephraimite?' If he replied, 'No,' they said, 'All right, say Shibboleth.' If he said, 'Sibboleth,' because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Fourty-thousand were killed at the time.- Judges 12:4-6" ~ Edwidge Danticat
45. "Posing is death. I think when you make people pose for a photograph, you kill them." ~ Edwidge Danticat
46. "You thought that if you didn't tell the stories, the sky would fall on your head." ~ Edwidge Danticat
47. "I owe Oprah and that show a tremendous debt." ~ Edwidge Danticat
48. "No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness." ~ Edwidge Danticat
49. "Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy." ~ Edwidge Danticat
50. "They are the people of creation. Their maker…gives them the sky to carry because they are so strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head." ~ Edwidge Danticat
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Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and let their tempos move you emotionally and corporeally. Try to assimilate new ideas by trying out the rhythms of those you encounter."
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