Edwidge Danticat quote ✍️

No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

There is one thing you need to do to people who hate you for the way you are and what you do. What's that? The thing you do best. And that would be? Give them hell, and fight back,…

-“Why do men like you do the job you do? It can’t be for the medals. And it’s certainly not the money.” Stone said nothing.-“Why then? God and country?”-“Both simpler and more comp…

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and th…