Top 305 Quotes & Sayings by Haitian Authors - Page 4

I have to make sure, when you start seeing a film, you are going to see it until the end. I have to, of course, entertain you a little bit. The real question is how far do I go?

Some people say I make hip-hop. Others see me as doing EDM. Some people might look at me as a trap artist, but I'm not really stuck to any of those.

Right now, the machine keeps us totally busy. If you don't react against it, you'll end up letting yourself go and become the perfect consumer. That's what they want.

At the highest level of the government, we have to set the tone and preach by example.

A couple of people thought I looked familiar, but it was like, No.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. Most of the elite suffer from psychogenic amnesia. That means it's not organic amnesia, such as damage caused by brain injury. It's just a matter of psychology.

As long as you are in that white privilege bubble, you don't need to see the world differently. You don't need to see the world through the eyes of minorities or women.

Certain people should not be allowed to exploit the law, to decide the only way to engage in politics is to accuse others of lying.

I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn't until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go to film school.

I don't even want to be president!

The producing side is always a hard thing for me. I look at Flying Lotus and see producers dropping instrumentals, and I think I should do it myself. I just try to be an artist for myself. That way, it's a lot easier.

I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.

Many Haitians don't want to participate in something they think will be violent.

Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

When you stand up in the morning, you look in the mirror and say, 'I'm black.' No. You wake up and you see yourself as a human being in the world, but you raise discussion and raise aggression, the anger that you confront every day of your life, whether you want to or not.

I have refused money sometimes for a film. I have refused films when I felt that it was not for me. When it was just a job or just about making money, I said no. I wanted to make every film count, and when you are true to yourself, this gives you a certain integrity and a certain reputation.

There was an attempt on my life.

I can't tell a story just by deciding to tell a story, do it in a didactic way. I need to have my own emotion, to feel, 'Wow, there is something I can discover, I can create.'

People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

We don't need to fight against each other. Let's fight for each other.

I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.

Nando's - boom! That's what I'm thinking of whenever I'm in London. I go there every time.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

I think that if Haiti is not self-sufficient in food, it is because we have stopped working.

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

When I started this profession, I wanted to make films that entertain but that have content. When I went to film school, they made me believe that the two could not mix.

We need to learn how to organize, not just to let our anger explode. We need to have organization for the long run, not for one issue, not for one murder, but for everything coming to us in the next 20, 30 years.

Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful.

You cannot develop a country on donations.

We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.

I believe my past is my strength.

Whatever will happen has to be based on long-term policies and strategies of resistance. We had the Occupy Wall Street movement, but when they had to step up and organize in a more institutional way, the whole movement dissolved.

I'm looking for all types of sounds. Anything that has soul and funk in it, no matter the genre.

I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

People who seek ransom out on the roads, who set up barricades, they are looking for work.

I felt like there were two people inside me. I was trying to be somebody I was not, and I was frustrated that people didn't know who I was.

That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected.

We need peace and stability to encourage people to vote.

The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.

Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

As Minister of Foreign Affairs. I will work on deepening Haiti's links with its traditional partners from the North and the South, while exploring all the opportunities for economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation that may benefit my country.

That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.

I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handedly revolutionized the political, artistic, and historical discourses about America.

As revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the voice of the people.

I don't feel like a live set even seems super real for an electronic act like me. It's not really that entertaining. I've seen a lot of my favourite acts take it to a new level with a live band and stuff, which is amazing, but for me, a live set would be boring to watch.

Never, never will justice be used in Haitian institutions as an instrument for political persecution.

Making a film is just layers and layers of work of edits and trial and error.

We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.

I'm my own stylist. Always! I don't wanna hire someone to chose what I should wear. At the same time, I do always wanna wear some crazy clothes.

We don't want to govern the country without democratic institutions.

The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail.

Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.

International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.