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

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

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

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

Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies to tell a greater truth. The story is a mask; the characters you create are masks. That appeals to me. Aside from that, too, in the carnival the masks were beautiful, and offered a vision of Haitian creativity.

I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.