...women, brave as stars at dawn

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.

The girl she said, I didn’t tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don’t want to lose them.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

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

In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were at high risk: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians. We were the only ones identified by nationality.