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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.

— Évelyne Trouillot for Bomb Magazine (2005)

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More quotes by Évelyne Trouillot

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)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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