Edwidge Danticat Quotes

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

Edwidge Danticat

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

Jenna Dewan

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I give credit to my team. I have dedicated people from my label, my fans, and people at these companies that believe in me.

Andra Day

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I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

John Keegan

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By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.

Ann Kirkpatrick

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I used to go to the U.S. Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.

Andy Roddick

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One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

Stephen Daldry

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If I'm going to try and find something, I stick to the flea markets, or I pull hand-me-downs from my family because I like pieces to have stories.

Troian Bellisario

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Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

Ron Fournier

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The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Roland Barthes

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America is worth fighting for ideologically.

Matt Bevin

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The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.

Jaron Lanier

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If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.

Donald Justice

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