Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!

"People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything."

"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."