I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

you can't beat me and my prayers!

The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?

For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.