I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture.

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

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

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

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance.

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.