Haitian Quotes - Page 2

• The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make much progress unless there's a strong solidarity movement within the superpower that will restrain its actions. With more support within the United States, I think the Haitian efforts could have succeeded.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• 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

  Children, Taken, School

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

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• I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Florida, Groups, Citizenship

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Lying, Creativity

  Entrevista David Barsamian, progressive.org. 1 de octubre de 2003.

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• The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there were Southern white officers, who led an army that crushed the indigenous resistance - the cacos. A high-ranking U.S. officer said when he arrived, "To think these niggers speak French!" Later, Haitian officers attended the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning. The threat from the U.S. is something that is always hanging over people's heads: If we don't behave, we'll have occupation again.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Military, School, Army

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

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• In Haitian mythology there is the figure Ghede, who in West Africa, is Iku, whose role is to show "each man his devil." He's represented by a figure wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar. That's my gig.

  Ismael Reed

  Men, Smoking, Devil

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Block, Years, People

  "Noam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin America, and the History of the U.S. in the Middle East". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 17, 2011.

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• I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.

  Michel Martelly

  Song, Air, World

  "Haiti’s Michel Martelly: Wyclef’s Presidential Opponent Speaks". Interview with Tai Saint-Louis, allhiphop.com. August 6, 2010.

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• Haití siempre está hablando de descentralización y nada ha sido tan obvio, tal vez una debilidad, como la naturaleza centralizada de la sociedad haitiana que ha revelado el terremoto. Es decir, perdieron todos esos programas de formación médica porque no los tenían en ningún otro sitio.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Talking, Earthquakes

  "Preguntas y respuestas: El Dr. Paul Farmer y Ophelia Dahl sobre los esfuerzos de recuperación en Haití". Entrevista con Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. 29 de enero de 2011.

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• It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.

  Jimmy Jean-Louis

  Hero, Black, Hollywood

  Fuente: www.ebony.com

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• Los arroceros haitianos son bastante eficientes, pero no pueden competir con la agroindustria estadounidense, que depende de una enorme subvención gubernamental, gracias a los entusiastas del libre mercado de Ronald Reagan.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Subsidies, Agribusiness

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• Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish such a book had been available fifteen years ago when I was in the early stages of researching my series of novels. Popkin has been deft and tactful in stitching together these excerpts, and as a result, he manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it-this book engaged me deeply.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Book, Intelligent, Years

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• There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.

  Sam Trammell

  Art, New Orleans, Sea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.

  Michel Martelly

  Escuela, Niños, Años

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• Los africanos se aliaron a menudo con el antagonista de la República. Ahora, quizá quiera dar un paso atrás y preguntarse por qué puede ser así. Quizá le lleve a reconsiderar los orígenes de la nación que hoy conocemos como Estados Unidos de América. En lugar de verlo en la misma línea que la Revolución Francesa y la Revolución Haitiana, podría verlo en la misma línea que la revuelta contra el dominio británico en Rodesia en 1965, y, si es así, eso podría ayudar a arrojar luz sobre por qué el conservadurismo está tan profundamente arraigado en esta república.

  Gerald Horne

  Light, America, Veins

  Fuente: politicalaffairs.net

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• At one point, we were stuck at the border of Peru and Colombia and met this large Haitian population that was stranded there without passports and couldn't move. We had this revelation that, as tourists, we were so free to move, and here was this other population who couldn't cross borders.

  Sam Pressman

  Moving, Tourists, Population

  Fuente: www.indiewire.com

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• Barack ObamaLa administración de Obama respondió a la crisis haitiana en 24 horas. Aquí vienen los soldados, aquí viene la comida, vamos, vamos, vamos... Rush Limbaugh dijo a sus multimillonarios oyentes que Obama sólo lo hizo para ganarse el favor de los negros en Estados Unidos. Este es el tipo de idiotez con la que tengo que lidiar en mi país.

  Henry Rollins

  País, América, Gente

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• I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Thinking, Community, Nuance

  "Edwidge Danticat: The “Create Dangerously” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. November 23, 2010.

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• I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Hate, People, Groups

  "Una voz en el coro de Haití". Entrevista con Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.

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• As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.

  Sean Penn

  Organization, Issues, Haiti

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Una persona privada de belleza y placer me hace pensar en la noción haitiana de zombi: una persona desconectada de su alma, una persona que trabaja para el beneficio de otros pero nunca para el suyo propio, una persona que cumple sin pensar las órdenes del jefe y existe en un limbo emocional y mental.

  Ben Fuente

  Emotional, Boss, Soul

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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