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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed. Edwidge Danticat Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence. Edwidge Danticat Read Quote
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 Read Quote
