Frankétienne Quotes

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The night is thick, the night is tough. But still our hope is kept safe in the depths of our hearts.

Frankétienne

Fundamentally, life is tension. Towards something. Towards someone. Towards oneself. Towards the point of maturity where the old and the new, death and birth untangle. And every being is realized in part in the search for its double, a search which may, in a sense, merge with the intensity of a need, a desire, and an infinite quest.

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Every day I use the dialect of lunatic hurricanes. I speak the madness of clashing winds. Every evening I use the patois of furious rains. I speak the fury of waters in flood.

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Unemployment is like a curse. The gangrene of empty hours. The wounds of bad luck. The leprosy of insomnia. Boredom, grief, depression, melancholy, paranoia, financial difficulties, economic problems, unsuspected hazards and all misfortune accumulate suddenly in the cracks of everyday life.

Frankétienne

Frankétienne

Frankétienne

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Born: April 12, 1936

Died: February 20, 2025 (aged 88)

Bio: Frankétienne was a Haitian writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician, activist and intellectual. He is recognized as one of Haiti's leading writers and playwrights of both French and Haitian Creole, and is "known as the father of Haitian letters".

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