![Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."](/assets/img/quote-photos/language-is-such-a-powerful-thing-after-the-earthquake-i-went-to-haiti-and-peop.jpg)
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