Maryse Conde Quotes

“The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace.”
― Maryse Condé, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

“Life is too kind to men, whatever their color.”
― Maryse Condé, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

“They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a crime for which there is no pardon. She had struck a white man. She had not killed him, however. In her clumsy rage she had only managed to gash his shoulder”
― Maryse Condé, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem