Quote by Michael Blackson

We are all Africans. No need to kill an innocent soul just because of the different blood line.

— Simphiwe Scientist Dumi

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

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks,…

— Adam Hochschild

When you're Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that.

— Sarah Cooper

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

— Francois Duvalier

Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or…

— Edward Brooke

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is…

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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

The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.

— Kerry James Marshall

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

— Whoopi Goldberg

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

— Edwidge Danticat