We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

Often when you're an immigrant writing in English, people think it's primarily a commercial choice. But for many of us, it's a choice that rises out of the circumstances of our lives. These are the tools I have at my disposal, based on my experiences. It's a constant debate, not just in my community but in other communities as well. Where do you belong? You're kind of one of us, but you now write in a different language.