Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but t…

- Edwidge Danticat

Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, a…

- Edwidge Danticat

I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to th…

- Edwidge Danticat

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere,…

- Edwidge Danticat

Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

- Edwidge Danticat

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

- Edwidge Danticat

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

- Edwidge Danticat

...women, brave as stars at dawn

- Edwidge Danticat

No one will love you more than you love your pain.

- Edwidge Danticat