“I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.” GroupsTreatedInequalityDesperateFloridaCitizenshipRefugeeArrivalsCubanHaitian Author:Edwidge Danticat
“I've tried to meditate, but I feel like I always overthink the process. When I need to calm my mind, I will go for a family hike...” NeedsFeelsMindProcessCalm Author:Jacob Vargas
“On any given day, my daughters would snuggle in bed with my wife and me. We just hug and kiss each other. We laugh out loud and act completely silly. I stop and think to myself, "This is love."” ThinkingGivenLaughingWifeBedKissingDaughterMy WifeSillyLoudMy DaughterHugLaugh Out Loud Author:Jacob Vargas
“I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue?” PeopleIfsIssuesSecurityDeserveAirplaneNational SecurityCubaCubanAsylums Author:Edwidge Danticat
“The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.” MadeClaimsTerroristBoatAstonishingAttorneyHaiti Author:Edwidge Danticat
“The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.” PeopleFeelsYearsMayChildrenIdeasCountryStatesHappensGivenHoursUnitedDestinyCasesUnited StatesFourTwentiesDetermineDisappearFortyOccupationFrighteningJustificationCnn Author:Edwidge Danticat
“Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.” PersonsDoeHardLyingRight NowHardestHardest ThingHaiti Author:Edwidge Danticat
“My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.” PeopleModelsTalesGrandmotherFormalStorytellerMy GrandmotherAunt Author:Edwidge Danticat
“In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.” PeopleThinkingDesireForcePowerfulInfluenceInspiredDrivenEntertaining Author:Brandi Carlile
“Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.” SometimesPrivilegeComplacency Author:Brandi Carlile