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This day, more than any other, should remind us that everyone seeking asylum deserves to be treated humanely.

— Edwidge Danticat

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The nomad or immigrant who learns something rightly must always ponder travel and movement, just as the grief-stricken must inevitably ponder death.

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010)

All artists, writers among them, have several stories-one might call them creation myths-that haunt and obsess them.

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010)

The person she'd been when the three of them, she and her husband and her son, had gotten on that boat and left Haiti-that person was also lost at sea.

Everything Inside (2019)

Reading, and perhaps ultimately writing, is nothing like living in a place and time where two very young men are killed in a way that is treated like entertainment.

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010)

most of my tourism is done through books.

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