Great Regulars: Obviously in my uncle's case

and in the case of these mosques, this rule was broken. So you can say that a neighborhood, a society, is truly unraveling when these things happen. In my view, though, the body is sacred, yet people are raped, maimed, beaten and killed. Breath is sacred, yet we smother it every day. We do not value people either as much as we should. A writer cannot really restore hope to any of that, at least not the kind of writer I am. All I can do is document it. [--Edwidge Danticat]

from E. Ethelbert Miller: Foreign Policy in Focus: Fiesta!: Interview with Edwidge Danticat

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