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People Quotes by Edwidge Danticat
- You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate…
- For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great…
- I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme.…
- More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things.…
- I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real…
- Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force -…
- In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see…
- Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French…
- People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.
- People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to…
- People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.
- There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears…
- Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you…
- Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may…
- People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.
- I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I…
- Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and…
- On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What…
- I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor…
- Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua.…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle