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We are ill-favored, but still we endure. Every once in a while, we must scream this as far as the wind can carry our voices. "Nou lèd, nou la!" We are ugly, but we are here! And here to stay.

— Edwidge Danticat

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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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