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 have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.
As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head. - Jacques Roumain
As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.
- 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
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…
And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart. - Jacques Roumain
And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
Experience is the cane of the blind. - Jacques Roumain
Experience is the cane of the blind.
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
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…
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones. - Jacques Roumain
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.
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