Quotes by haitian authors

Donors need to know what their money is being used for. Michel Martelly
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International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping. Michel Martelly
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The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results. Michel Martelly
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It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors. Michel Martelly
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I don't even want to be president! Michel Martelly
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I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right. Pras Michel
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The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too. Pras Michel
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In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously. Pras Michel
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When we came up with titles like Ready or Not, that's how we really felt. Pras Michel
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People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something. Pras Michel
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I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do. Pras Michel
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That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected. Raoul Peck
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Even in Haiti, I saw John Wayne movies. American cinema has always been the dominant cinema throughout the world, and people tend to forget that. People aren't just seeing these films in California or Florida. They're seeing them in Haiti, in Congo, in France, in Italy and in Asia. That is the power of Hollywood. Raoul Peck
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As long as you are in that white privilege bubble, you don't need to see the world differently. You don't need to see the world through the eyes of minorities or women. Raoul Peck
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When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I had were the images of Tarzan. That's what I thought Africa was. Of course, the first day I arrived there, I thought I would see a lot of savages dancing on the tarmac. Raoul Peck
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I never wanted to be current in the sense that I follow the news, I follow the historical moment of the day. It was always, for me, to go back to the fundamentals. Raoul Peck
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James Baldwin is probably, for me and for many other people, one of the most extraordinary authors in this country, black or white. And he is somebody who changed my life. Raoul Peck
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We ignore our own history. We ignore all these values and valuable people who really changed everything, who sacrificed their own lives for a better America. Raoul Peck
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The only direction I can give to an actor, a good actor who knows his skills, is, 'Here are those words. They're yours. Make them yours. Don't tell the text but be the text.' That means you have to be the emotion of the text. Raoul Peck
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You face the reality, whether it's hopeful or hopeless. What's your alternative? To lie down and die? Raoul Peck
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I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process. Raoul Peck
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I can't tell a story just by deciding to tell a story, do it in a didactic way. I need to have my own emotion, to feel, 'Wow, there is something I can discover, I can create.' Raoul Peck
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I have to make sure, when you start seeing a film, you are going to see it until the end. I have to, of course, entertain you a little bit. The real question is how far do I go? Raoul Peck
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When I started this profession, I wanted to make films that entertain but that have content. When I went to film school, they made me believe that the two could not mix. Raoul Peck
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I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handedly revolutionized the political, artistic, and historical discourses about America. Raoul Peck
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I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom. Raoul Peck
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