Edwidge Danticat Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: haitian
  • Birth: January 19, 1969

Topics

PeopleInternetYouInformationFind

When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.

Jim Crace

YouListenWriteBoxGoingYour

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Joan Didion

PowerRespectGreatFreeBackUs

I'm constantly dodging people in L.A. There are some people I don't ever wanna see again, but if you live where you grew up, you're running into people constantly.

Jenny Lewis

LivePeopleYouSome PeopleSeeUp

Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally.

Megan Smith

GovernmentExpectOurReally

I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.

Stephen Baldwin

PeopleStand UpBelieveStandYou

I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.

Shirley Chisholm

DayI AmPeopleMeKnowPolitician

When I need to complete a project of primary importance, I'm around nature a lot.

Robin S. Sharma

NatureProjectNeedCompleteAround

The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.

Joyce Banda

SuccessWomenChildrenBestSeeds

I wouldn't be me if my repertoire wasn't bel canto.

Juan Diego Florez

MeRepertoire

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Diane Ravitch

EducationHopeComplacencyAmerican

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

Christopher Guest

LifeI AmCameraLivingRealJoke

My wife noticed that I wrote really good complaint letters about faulty products and that I could get anything I wanted out of these big corporations, and she said that I was a good writer and that I should go to my dad and ask him for help.

Brian Herbert

GoodWifeHelpGoSaidLetters

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