There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses."
Edwidge DanticatAnd the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
Edwidge DanticatHere, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.
Edwidge DanticatI remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.
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