“Nothing is wrong with you dear child. You are special, you are… a witch.”

“We rode through the night. No food offered, no water provided. They raided town after town until we finally reached the shore. There, we were tied to one another and driven like cattle onto a ship. They made sure to split us up. No families were permitted to be together. That would have shown a sense of humanity and these men, these slavers, had none.”

“Now she was tainted; transformed by her parent’s maleficent desires for power and fortune. I pitied her. But more so, I missed the friend I once had.”

“El azar, es el disfraz que Dios elige cuando desea pasearse de incógnito. Einstein”

“It's risky to try to determine the moments when a person's life is changed forever. I don't even know if such moments exist.”

“He who allows himself to be halted by the first difficulty in his path does not go far in life.”

“By creating a society in which all people, of all colors, were granted freedom and citizenship, the Haitian Revolution forever transformed the world. It was a central part of the destruction of slavery in the Americas, and therefore a crucial moment in the history of democracy, one that laid the foundation for the continuing struggles for human rights everywhere. In this sense we are all descendents of the Haitain Revolution, and responsible to these ancestors.”