Famous quotes containing the word roumain:
“As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)
“Experience is the cane of the blind.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)
“She sang a song that sounds like life; I mean it was sad. Délira knew no other types of songs. She didn’t sing loud, and the song had no words. It was sung with closed lips and it stayed down in one’s throat.... Life is what taught them, these Negresses, to sing as if they were choking back sobs. It is a song that always ends with a beginning anew because this song is the picture of misery, and tell me, does misery ever end?”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)