CNN Quote by Edwidge Danticat

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…

— Edwidge Danticat

I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people.

— Francois Duvalier

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at…

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a…

— Madison Smartt Bell

Many Haitians don't want to participate in something they think will be violent.

— Jovenel Moise

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at…

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

My parents grew up in Haiti, and unfortunately they watched the country they loved slide into dictatorship.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

Haitians must understand that they have to collaborate to resolve the country's problems - no one is coming to rescue them.

— Jovenel Moise

One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable.…

— Sean Penn

Haiti is an amazing country. Even though the people there have so little, their attitudes resonate a crazy amount of love and joy. It…

— Noah Munck

It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the misperceptions people have. But there's so much more. There are…

— Roxane Gay

Haiti's complicated. Certain things are hard for us to fathom.

— Aaron Boone