About Quote by Roxane Gay

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or…

— Edwidge Danticat

I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

— Wyclef Jean

I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians…

— Sean Penn

When you step off a plane into a place like Haiti, you're just surrounded by overwhelming stimulus: the people selling you things, asking you…

— Michael Arden

I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately,…

— David A. Bednar

“It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we're virtuous and we get fat because we're not, but the evidence simply…

— Gary Taubes

“Until visiting Haiti, I had no idea what poverty really was or the difference between relative and absolute poverty. To see poverty so plainly…

— Roxane Gay

In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you.

— Roxane Gay

When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the…

— Roxane Gay

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

Haiti is open for business!

— Laurent Lamothe