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'...She cannot stay out of duty. The things one does, one should do out of love.' (p155)

— Edwidge Danticat Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)

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

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)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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