Mar

13

2010

Thabiti Anyabwile|11:38 pm CT

Remember Haiti?
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“If the world is a vale of tears, Haiti is the best watered corner on the globe.  Since I was born Haitian, sainthood seemed to me to be the only way to attract Christ’s attention to a planet without tenderness or consolation.”

Haitian poet, essayist, and educator, Rene Depestre, from the short story, “Rosena on the Mountain,” in The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, p. 119.

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