# Quote — Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning

> What right did these white people have to be here in the first place, stealing our land and making our people slaves? And now they have the audacity to try to buy us back from the French like we are nothing more than property?

- Author: [Tiphanie Yanique](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tiphanie-yanique.md)
- Book: [Land of Love and Drowning](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tiphanie-yanique/land-of-love-and-drowning.md)
- Page: 173
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tiphanie_Yanique#Land_of_Love_and_Drowning_(2014)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tiphanie-yanique/land-of-love-and-drowning/what-right-did

## More from this book

> We all have our own island, the one we carry with us wherever we go.

p. 167 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tiphanie-yanique/land-of-love-and-drowning/we-all-have.md)

> People often forget that they too are subject to the whims of the sea, that their flesh and bone can be pulled down and swallowed up just like anything else. But the sea remembers. It remembers everything, from the smallest broken shell to the largest sunken ship.

p. 283 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tiphanie-yanique/land-of-love-and-drowning/people-often-forget.md)

> It is not only a question of whether the American way of life is superior, but whether the American way of life is sustainable. Can we really continue to exploit the resources of the Caribbean for our own benefit without consequences?

p. 219 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tiphanie-yanique/land-of-love-and-drowning/it-is-not.md)