We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.

I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.

I hope to be a good role model for my daughters.

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses."

That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.