Edwidge Danticat

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#aware #columbia #el salvador #haiti #happens

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

#cnn #country #haiti #i #limited

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

— Edwidge Danticat

#find #hard #information #people #try

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

#interests #nations #over #policy #said

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

#country #exist #going #news #political

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

#country #coup #disappears #frustration #moments

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

— Edwidge Danticat

#for example #haitian #independence #start #year

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

— Edwidge Danticat

#happening #other #people #places #really

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#haiti #occupied #states #united #united states

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#back #complicated #difficult #especially #family