Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.

For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.

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

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

Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.