In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach).

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.

because being with you makes perfect sense

I love brooding in a bucolic valley about your endless compassion.

This is my calling.This is my destiny.I am living my dreams.

The calm serenity of the breeze as it blows across the ocean releases the tangled web within my mind.

I'll just keep going till people get disinterested. It's what I was born to do and thankfully, people have shown an interest. I never do anything to be famous.

Family over friends, because real friends are family

Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.

You can’t get mad at a bear for being racist. You can’t get mad at a bear for being offensive. It’s not real.

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.