There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses. … - Edwidge Danticat

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is supposedly-clever government interventions, introduced with excessive confidence, leading to disastrous results.

Edwidge Danticat

There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses. "

Cut, Cutting, Dessalines, Heads, House, Leader

Same Author Quotes

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

Love, Love Is, Pouring, Rain, Starts

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

Black, Gentle, Leaves, Misery, Thumbprints

There is this split between the Haiti of before the earthquake and the Haiti of after the earthquake. So when I'm writing anything set in Haiti now, whether fiction or nonfiction, always in the back of my mind is how people, including some of my own family members, have been affected not just by history and by the present but also by the earthquake.

Writing, People, Mind, Set, Family

Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . .

Keeps, Monday, Night, Things, Write, Writing

Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.

Defended, Hiding, Lived, Open, People, Should

Similar Quotes

Henry Louis Gates

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Black, Common, Culture, Dna, Educational

Aaron Hill

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

Equity, Law, Reason, Shock, Shocks

Arnold Kling

Clever, Thinking, Government, Disastrous, Higher, Interventions

Franz Kline

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

Boston, Worry, Use, Noise, Half

Kathleen Hanna

You guys are seriously missing out unless you all start listening to girls.

Girl, Guy, Guys, Listening, Missing, Seriously