Edwidge Danticat Haiti Quotations

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

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

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.

America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."

This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.