Haiti Quote by Edwidge Danticat Download Open image “Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.” — Edwidge Danticat ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Haiti People Religion Rich
When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the sticking of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“No place in Haiti was easy to get to and to drive to their lodge would take a couple of hours, so they sent… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Haitian culture. Everything we did was from the Haitian culture. — Sony Michel Copy Share Image
Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how… — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture,… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has… — Michel Martelly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Haiti is not a world aside, a world apart. Culture and imaginations have always been part of our rebirth. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“Medicare rewards doctors far better for doing procedures than for assessing whether they should be done at all.” — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up.… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Instead I dreamt of walking out of the world, of spending all my time inside with no one to talk to, and no one… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results.… — Michel Martelly Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The Hope, Love & Healing necklace is the perfect embodiment of what we are trying to bring to Haiti through safe and sustainable housing,… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as president-for-life [and]… — Jean-Claude Duvalier Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'd like to refocus everyone's attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers. Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image