Knowledge is a function of being. When there is a change in the being of the knower, there is a corresponding change in the nature and amount of knowing.

Everyday when I wake I always wake up with a smile

To my grandmother, chagrin was a genuine physical disease. Like a hurt leg or a broken arm. To treat chagrin, you drank tea from leaves that only my grandmother and other old wise women could recognize.

Even by the end of the last century, the average human being in a country such as ours saw as many images in a day as a Victorian inhaled in a lifetime.

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, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.

You thought that if you didn't tell the stories, the sky would fall on your head.

Edwidge Danticat

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Written By Edwidge Danticat

Written By Edwidge Danticat

Written By Edwidge Danticat

Written By Edwidge Danticat

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