I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

...women, brave as stars at dawn

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

The past is like the hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have this feeling that wherever you come from, you physically leave it, but it doesn't leave you.

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.