Quote by Edwidge Danticat
You have all these people in the city and everything has become ce

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city. – Edwidge Danticat

Other quotes by Edwidge Danticat

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

Category:
amazing
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Travel
category

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. – Cesare Pavese

Category:
Travel

I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that. – Ivan Lendl

Category:
Travel

After a lifetime of world travel Ive been fascinated that those in the third world dont have the same perception of reality that we do. – Jim Harrison

Category:
Travel

I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that hell travel with me if its appropriate, if Im not going overseas. – Gina Gershon

Category:
Travel

Random Quotes

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. – Anaïs Nin

Category:
Be Yourself

There is reading, and there is reading. Reading as a means to an end, for information, to cultivate oneself; reading as an end in itself, a process, a compulsion. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

Category:
Books

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. – Ramana Maharshi

Category:
Freedom

A man can seldom — very, very, seldom — fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. – Mark Twain

Category:
Training