As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

- Jacques Roumain

And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.

- Jacques Roumain

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings whil…

- Jacques Roumain

At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, an…

- Jacques Roumain

Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't hav…

- Jacques Roumain

Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one i…

- Jacques Roumain

Experience is the cane of the blind.

- Jacques Roumain

A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of…

- Jacques Roumain

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

- Jacques Roumain