“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.”

—  Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!

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Novelist, short story writer, memoirist 1969

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