Being Haitian Quotes & Sayings

Evie's eyes widened. More interesting than dope and sorcery? — Libba Bray

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else. — Pope Francis

Only felines were better than humans at sarcasm. — Gavin G. Smith

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. — Paul Farmer

We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields. — Edwidge Danticat

Pebble Beach. Jeff and — Danielle Steel

Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies to tell a greater truth. The story is a mask; the characters you create are masks. That appeals to me. Aside from that, too, in the carnival the masks were beautiful, and offered a vision of Haitian creativity. — Edwidge Danticat

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. — Goldie Hawn

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium. — Paul Harvey

Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by. — Terry Rossio