Edwidge Danticat Quotes

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

The American People got fucked. Then tell 'em the American Family got fucked.

This case serves as an appalling reminder of the evils that result when large numbers of the politically powerless are placed at the mercy of institutions engendered and controlled by a politically powerful few.

In the transition epoch, surely crimes will come. Did the seed of tyranny ever bear good fruit? And can you expect Liberty to undo in a moment what Oppression has been doing for ages?

The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

Sham liberty will be proclaimed everywhere.

Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.