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People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

~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.

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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.

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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.

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To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

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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.

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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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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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People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

~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.

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Biography

Nationality: Haitian

Type: Author

Born: January 19th, 1969

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