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Évelyne Trouillot Quotes

born 1954 Haiti

Évelyne Trouillot (born January 2, 1954) is an author and professor who lives in Haiti. She writes in French and Creole.

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Random Évelyne Trouillot quote

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Literature is a key to understanding human nature, social relations, and feelings.

for Words Without Borders (2019)

I like this back and forth between the past and the present, between memory and reality.

for Bomb Magazine (2005)

Between us silence covers the wounds with a veil of peace and a soft breeze. (p19)

The Infamous Rosalie (2003)

Two crimson nights, followed by so many days of silence. (chapter 1 p34)

Memory at Bay (2010)

Always in the backs of their minds were their memories of an oppressive past, from which they could hope to break free only with great turmoil and agitation. (chapter 3 p100 )

Memory at Bay (2010)

This is a year not just to celebrate the past; it is a year to build, to change, to question, to recover our history and demystify it.

for Bomb Magazine (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Évelyne Trouillot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.