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Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Also
Aware
Columbia
El Salvador
Haiti
Happens
Influence
Like
Nicaragua
Now
Often
People
Places
Policies
Right
Salvador
States
United
United States
Way
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And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Fact
Haiti
Occupied
States
United
United States
Years
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Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Administration
Always
Clean
Creating
Delta
Different
Different Things
Doing
Force
Go
Heroic
Messes
Moment
People
Realizing
See
Than
Them
Then
Things
Up
Were
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Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Am
Back
Complicated
Difficult
Family
Grasp
Happening
Home
I Am
Me
Moments
Reach
Still
Things
Trying
Understand
Very
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I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Being
Country
Daily
Future
I Think
Think
Thrown
Wind
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I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.
~ Edwidge Danticat
About
End
Extreme
Haiti
Hear
I Think
Knowing
Much
Neglect
Only
People
Place
Suffers
Think
Up
Want
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I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Also
Amazing
Dreams
Extraordinary
Growing
Growing Up
Had
Knew
Lot
Most
Obstacles
Part
People
Poor
Poor People
Raise
Up
Very
Voice
Wanted
Who
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In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.
~ Edwidge Danticat
American
Country
Fact
In Fact
Interaction
Limited
Most
Rich
Shocking
Struggle
Unless
Us
Very
Way
World
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In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Had
Haiti
States
Supported
United
United States
Very
Well
Were
Years
You
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In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.
~ Edwidge Danticat
About
Aware
Back
Been
Bit
Connections
Current
Go
Idea
Iraq
Lessons
Little
Little Bit
Long-Term
Many
More
Occupation
People
Period
Reading
See
Terms
Way
You
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More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Able
Access
Different
Even
Find
Goodness
Information
Interested
Internet
More
More And More
More People
People
Than
Thank
Thank Goodness
Things
Which
Years
Years Ago
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Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
~ Edwidge Danticat
After
America
American
Army
Been
Big
Chunk
Depleted
Driven
Fighting
Forces
Free
Free People
French
Had
Haiti
His
Little
Little Money
Money
Napoleon
North
North America
Out
People
Revolution
Slaves
Sold
Stopped
Very
Were
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On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Affects
Bad
Brings
Connected
Happened
Here
Joining
Larger
Level
Now
People
Questions
Realizing
Recently
Scary
Shaken
Some
Sometimes
Spain
Too
Up
Us
Very
Way
Ways
World
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On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Also
Away
Basic
Basic Things
Being
Feeling
Ideology
Levels
More
Play
Pure
Some
Somehow
Something
Strange
Taken
Things
Time
Understand
Very
Were
World
Would
You
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Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Children
Claimed
Even
Execute
Florida
Hope
Least
Prepared
Something
State
Well
Where
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People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Aware
Happening
Other
People
Places
Really
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People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Around
CNN
Country
Haiti
Limited
Only
People
Think
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People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Alternative
Find
Hard
Information
People
Try
Want
Who
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Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Friends
Interests
Nations
Over
Policy
Said
See
Someone
You
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That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Any
Country
Exist
Going
News
Political
Political Process
Process
See
Them
Through
Topic
Whatever
Whenever
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