Edwidge Danticat Quotes About Feelings

• En algunos niveles, también se puede tener la sensación de que nos están engañando, de alguna manera. Y que el mundo está en juego por algo que entenderías más si fuera pura ideología. Es una época muy extraña y también nos están quitando cosas básicas.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Taken, Play, Feelings

• Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."

  Edwidge Danticat

  Powerful, Vocabulary, Talking

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. June 2010.

• The past is like the hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have this feeling that wherever you come from, you physically leave it, but it doesn't leave you.

  Edwidge Danticat

  New York, Past, Hair

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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