Marie Vieux-Chauvet > Quotes

“Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.”
― Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy

“Fear is a vice that takes root once it is cultivated. It takes time to recover from it.”
― Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy

“I am not naive: a servant is faithful when it is in her interest.”
― Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy

“What’s the use of religion if it oppresses instead of consoling? If it offers despair instead of relief? If it takes away instead of preserving?”
― Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych

“One thing remains true: hatred only breeds hatred.”
― Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych

“C'est avec ma main et avec mon cœur que j'écris, pas avec mes yeux”
― Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy

“I would call purity a total ignorance of the torments of the flesh or the triumph of the will over them.”
― Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy

“Les loas sont les dieux des nègres d’Afrique. Dieu est universel. Les loas se vengent de la désertion des nègres car ils ont été esclaves et persécutés et que le vaudou sera, un jour, leur point de ralliement”
― Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy

“Tatoués par la faute originelle, nous sommes dès l'origine maudits”
― Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy

“Mais le Père Angelo se refusa tout net à serrer la main au prêtre du vaudou”
― Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy

“A man shapes his desire according to his woman, and thus loves her only as much as he respects her, I told myself in consolation. So reasoning, I quickly”
― Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych