African american Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“And no one would be brought to account for this destruction, because my death would not be the fault of any human but the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Earthquakes can't shake us. Cyclones can't break us. Hurricanes can't take away our love...”

— Charice

“How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing…

— William Dean Howells

“But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.”

— James Baldwin

“greatest natural disaster in America’s history. The storm’s supermassive fetch, hurling the already-swollen ocean onto land. High winds and twenty inches of rain shredding…

— Charlie Jane Anders

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The typhoon had got on Jukes' nerves”

— joseph conrad

“We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in the economics and…

— Rebecca Solnit

“In San Francisco, two people actually saw the earthquake. Jesse Cook, the police sergeant on duty in the produce market, saw it a moment…

— Gordon Thomas

“The earthquake is the thing that all humans face: the banal inevitability of death. We don’t know when it will come, but we know…

— Richard Lloyd Parry

“Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all due respect…

— Jerry Ash

This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

— Mark Twain