Author: Edwidge Danticat

Cites

• Toni Morrison (1)
  • IN: Untwine (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You are my sister... You are my face; you are me... I waited for you You are mine You are mine You are mine
    FROM: Beloved, (1987), Novel, US
• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Farming of Bones (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Jephthah called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, "Let me cross over," the men of Gilead asked him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he replied, "No," they said, "All right, say 'Shiboleth,'" because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-thousand were killed at the time.
    FROM: Judges 12:4-6, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Jean Toomer (1)
  • IN: Claire of the Sea Light (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tell me, dear beauty of the dusk, When purple ribbons bind the hill, Do dreams your secret wish fulfill, Do prayers, like kernels from the husk Come from your lips? Tell me if when The mountains loom at night, giant shades Of softer shadow, swift like blades Of grass seeds come to flower. Then Tell me if the night winds bend Them towards me...
    FROM: "Tell Me", (1988), Poem, US

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• Simone A. James Alexander (1)
  • IN: African Diasporic Women's Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship (1967) American Literature, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I am even more certain that to create dangeroudly is also to create fearlessly, boldy embracing the public and private terrors that would silence us, then bravely moving forward even when it feels as though we are chasing or being chased by ghosts.
    FROM: Create Dangerously, (2010), Book, Haiti