It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

AIDS was something that was put upon us [as haitians], and we were immediately identified with it. That is unfair. That is unjust. I always say, "We are all people living with AIDS." It's not like you can avoid it. It's part of our world.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.

The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.