Haitian Quotes
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.
Edwidge Danticat
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I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.
Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest -
The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.
Jerry Coleman -
I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.
Edwidge Danticat -
Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies to tell a greater truth. The story is a mask; the characters you create are masks. That appeals to me. Aside from that, too, in the carnival the masks were beautiful, and offered a vision of Haitian creativity.
Edwidge Danticat -
I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.
Michel Martelly