20 quotes found
“...women, brave as stars at dawn”
“Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.”
“To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.”
“The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.”
“People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.”
“You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them like amulets to protect us from evil spells.”
“They are the people of creation. Their makergives them the sky to carry because they are so strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is becaus...”
“Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can ...”
“There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libr?' Are you free, my dau...”
“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unrulin...”
“I want to figure out how people can go on with their lives when mine has changed so much. I want to relearn how to breathe without carrying this big, empty cave inside me.”
“I began my effort at improving my flight experiences by reading purposefully during my flights. My airplane reading would often be centered on themes. On some flights I would read only newspapers a...”
“These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.”
“Those who die young, they are cheated, she said. Not cheated out of life, because life is a penance, but the young, theyre cheated because they dont know its coming. They dont have time to move clo...”
“The immigrant artist shares with all other artists the desire to interpret and possibly remake his or her own world. So though we may not be creating as dangerously as our forebearsthough we are no...”
“I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their children's inheritance. Proverbs, teeth suckings, obscenities, even grunts and moans once inserte...”
“When you write, its like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are lon...”
“They are the people of creation. Their maker…gives them the sky to carry because they are so strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is becau...”
“Those who die young, they are cheated,” she said. “Not cheated out of life, because life is a penance, but the young, they’re cheated because they don’t know it’s coming. They don’t have time to mo...”
“When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are lo...”
