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The immigrant artist shares with all other artists the desire to interpret and possibly remake his or her own world. So though we may not be creating as dangerously as our forebears__hough we are not risking torture, beatings, execution, though exile does not threaten us into perpetual silence_ still, while we are at work bodies are littering the streets somewhere. People are buried under rubble somewhere. Mass graves are being dug somewhere. Survivors are living in makeshift tent cities and refugee camps somewhere, shielding their heads from the rain, closing their eyes, covering their ears, to shut out the sounds of military __id_ helicopters. And still, many are reading, and writing, quietly, quietly.
Edwidge Danticat Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
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The immigrant artist shares with all other artists the desire to interpret and possibly remake his or her own world. So though we may not be creating as dangerously as our forebears__hough we are not risking torture, beatings, execution, though exile does not threaten us into perpetual silence_ still, while we are at work bodies are littering the streets somewhere. People are buried under rubble somewhere. Mass graves are being dug somewhere. Survivors are living in makeshift tent cities and refugee camps somewhere, shielding their heads from the rain, closing their eyes, covering their ears, to shut out the sounds of military __id_ helicopters. And still, many are reading, and writing, quietly, quietly.
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

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