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 DanticatQue 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 DanticatAs 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 DanticatTag: literacy
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 DanticatI owe Oprah and that show a tremendous debt.
Edwidge DanticatTag: convo david-b-dacosta
Our fatigue limited our desire to talk. Besides, each person's story did nothing except bring you closer to your own pain.
Edwidge DanticatI wish I could've done more for her, but some sorrows were simply too individual to share.
Edwidge DanticatFor 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 DanticatInstead I dreamt of walking out of the world, of spending all my time inside with no one to talk to, and no one to talk to me. All I wanted was a routine, a series of sterile acts that I could perform without dedication or effort, a life where everything was constantly the same, where every day passed exactly like the one before.
Edwidge DanticatPosing is death. I think when you make people pose for a photograph, you kill them.
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