Haitian Historian Quotes

On the earthquakes in Haiti:

Every corpse is mine; everybody is mine. Their spirit fuses with mine and that of all Haitians. Spirits live beyond death—and before birth. The dead are not dead, but alive in new dimensions.

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith

The interplay of institutions is not... as perfect as one would have desired. The machinery creaks, its springs screech and the principles emerge badly cracked.

Dantès Bellegarde