Haitian Quote by Francois Duvalier Download Open image “I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people.” — Francois Duvalier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Haitian People
I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Haitian culture. Everything we did was from the Haitian culture. — Sony Michel Copy Share Image
I think that the kinds of stereotypes that people have about Haitians or about HIV sufferers exist because we don't realize that these are… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
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… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When you can… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti.… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The chief of the tribe is supposed to be the father of all people of the tribe. That is the Haitian way. — Francois Duvalier Copy Share Image
The true Caribbean people... we are carnival people, we are vibrant people, not dead people. We like to be heard and we like to… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
As revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the voice of the people. — Francois Duvalier Copy Share Image
God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it,… — Francois Duvalier Copy Share Image
The chief of the tribe is supposed to be the father of all people of the tribe. That is the Haitian way. — Francois Duvalier Copy Share Image
It is not a question of whether I believe in voodoo. I am a scholar and, as such, I have studied the concept of… — Francois Duvalier Copy Share Image
Communism has established centres of infection... No area in the world is as vital to American security as the Caribbean...We need a massive injection… — Francois Duvalier Copy Share Image
I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people. — Francois Duvalier Copy Share Image
I am the Haitian flag. He who is my enemy is the enemy of the fatherland. — Francois Duvalier Copy Share Image
The people of Haiti have always called me Papa Doc. I was first their doctor. Now I am also their president for life. — Francois Duvalier Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire. — Francois Duvalier 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 grew up in the Haitian culture. Everything we did was from the Haitian culture. — Sony Michel Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation — Phife Dawg Copy Share Image
The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make much progress… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share
The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why that might be. It may lead you to a reconsideration of the origins of the nation now known as the United States of America. As opposed to seeing it in the same vein as the French Revolution and… — Gerald Horne Copy Share
Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the… — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
