Home / Quotes / Quote by Edwidge Danticat

Quote by Edwidge Danticat

“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.”

Quote by Edwidge Danticat

Author

Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian-American author known for her profound exploration of themes such as immigration, family, and identity. Her works, often set against the backdrop of Haitian culture, reflect her personal experiences and the broader social political issues surrounding them. more

You May Also Like

“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...”

Needs Feels Mind Process Calm

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."”

Thinking Given Laughing Wife Bed Kissing Daughter My Wife Silly Loud My Daughter Hug Laugh 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?”

People Ifs Issues Security Deserve Airplane National Security Cuba Cuban Asylums

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.”

Made Claims Terrorist Boat Astonishing Attorney Haiti

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.”

People Feels Years May Children Ideas Country States Happens Given Hours United Destiny Cases United States Four Twenties Determine Disappear Forty Occupation Frightening Justification Cnn

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.”

Persons Doe Hard Lying Right Now Hardest Hardest Thing Haiti

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.”

People Models Tales Grandmother Formal Storyteller My Grandmother Aunt

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.”

People Thinking Desire Force Powerful Influence Inspired Driven Entertaining

Author:Brandi Carlile

“Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.”

Sometimes Privilege Complacency

Author:Brandi Carlile

“It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.”

World Opportunity Impossible One Thing Come Up Pursuit Fuel

Author:Brandi Carlile