Edwidge Danticat
Biography
Quotes
- I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
- You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.
- People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.
