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Edwidge Danticat

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People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places. - Edwidge Danticat
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People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti. - Edwidge Danticat
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People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it. - Edwidge Danticat
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Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy. - Edwidge Danticat
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That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist. - Edwidge Danticat
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There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness. - Edwidge Danticat
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To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence. - Edwidge Danticat
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Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment. - Edwidge Danticat
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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. - Edwidge Danticat
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On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way. - Edwidge Danticat
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And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. - Edwidge Danticat
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I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it. - Edwidge Danticat
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On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. - Edwidge Danticat
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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. - Edwidge Danticat
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Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. - Edwidge Danticat
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