Edwidge Danticat Quotes About Grandmothers

Quotes about: Grandmothers

• If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Grandmother, Names, Needs

• There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Mother, Daughter, Night

• My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Grandmother, Aunt, People

  Interview with David Barsamia, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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