Top 305 Quotes & Sayings by Haitian Authors - Page 2

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.

When the president says that the biggest problem of the country is corruption, they attack the morality of the president so that he doesn't speak about corruption.

You're telling me Beyonce is a revolutionary? Thirty years ago, you had those guys who raised their fists at the Olympic games, and they paid 30 years of their lives because of that gesture. And you're telling me a superstar who put one fist in the air is a revolutionary? But that's the superficiality of this time.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

I have had 20 months of campaigning.

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

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results.

That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.

We need a system that works.

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!

Haiti is back on the path to democracy.

I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.

I don't have much of a wish list, but I'm dying to work with Erykah Badu. That's pretty much my dream collaboration.

It's easier to collaborate with instrumentalists than singers; they know exactly the sound that I need.

I'm the fifth president of Haiti to rule without a parliament.

Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

I was president of a company and that company had a contract with the state.

When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I had were the images of Tarzan. That's what I thought Africa was. Of course, the first day I arrived there, I thought I would see a lot of savages dancing on the tarmac.

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

I never considered myself as somebody in exile because, different to my father who, yes, was in exile because he left Haiti as an adult, for me it was just to be somewhere else. I carried Haiti with me everywhere, but I also carried, you know, my youth in a public school in Brooklyn. It's part of who I am as well.

I am fully aware of my responsibility to ensure conditions are establish to guarantee security, stability and long-term development in Haiti.

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.

There should be an investigation into other organizations that have been working here since 2010. For example, Doctors Without Borders had to repatriate about 17 people for misconduct which was not explained.

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

We want to show the world Haiti can endure.

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.

We are in a phase of democratization. We are constructing a democracy. We cannot construct a democracy with irritants.

Film is carrying a lot of ideology. It's carrying an image. It's forging an image not only of the rest of the world, but also of yourself, you know.

Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is for me to decide.

I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.

Democracy demands sacrifice. Democracy demands that the rules of the game be respected just as the constitution requires.

At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write.

Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.

I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. So it became a movement. So, through the years, I've played my music with dedication, discipline and originality, and controversy also.

This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.

Even in Haiti, I saw John Wayne movies. American cinema has always been the dominant cinema throughout the world, and people tend to forget that. People aren't just seeing these films in California or Florida. They're seeing them in Haiti, in Congo, in France, in Italy and in Asia. That is the power of Hollywood.

I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

Neo-soul caught my attention more than any other sub-genre. I was really attracted by that sound. It made me do what I do musically: trying to find the same type of vibes, those nostalgic vibes.

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

Your president, the one you voted for, is not involved in corruption. Your president was never in corruption.

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

For 217 years, the whole history of the country has been based on conspiracies, coups, assassinations. We conspire to destroy it, never to build it.

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.

In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.

The Spanish offered me their protection, and liberty to those who would fight for the cause of the kings. I accepted their offers, seeing myself entirely abandoned by my brethren, the French.

I've given myself 18 to 24 months for Haiti to have electricity 24 hours around the clock.

To put it simply, as a black man, I started watching films at the age of six, and I've since seen the bad guys changing race - between the African savages, to the Native Americans, and then the blacks and the Arabs and the Chinese and the Vietnamese. Look at 'Rambo': it's exactly that.

We forget that everything has a meaning, everything has an impact on you. It's what we call soft power today. Nothing is innocent.

The government should take all responsibility to continue with the social appeasement projects in disadvantaged neighborhoods to improve people's conditions.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

I have taken my flight in the region of eagles; when I alight, it must be on a rock, and that rock must be a constitutional government, of which I shall be the head so long as I shall be among men.

President Trump and I are entrepreneurs, and all an entrepreneur wants is results, and therefore I hope we'll put everything in place to make sure we deliver for our peoples.