Jacques Roumain

“The water, it is the courage of the poor.”

“What are we? Since that's your question, I'm going to answer you. We're this country, and it's nothing without us, nothing at all.”

“Man is the baker of his own bread.”

“The land is a battle that is renewed every day.”

“It's the union that makes the strength.”

“Life is a thread that is never broken. Death is only a bend in the road.”

“But what is the life of a man? It is the water and the sun, the wind and the earth.”

“We are poor, it is true, but we are not beggars.”

“The sacrifice of a man is nothing, but the sacrifice of a people is everything.”

“We will make the great reconciliation of man with himself.”

“A man who doesn't know his past is like a tree without roots.”

“To be a man is to be responsible.”

“And she looked at him, and her eyes were filled with all the tears of the world.”

“Hope is a new day dawning.”

“It's in the drum that the spirit of our ancestors is kept.”