People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

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.

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

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

This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.

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