Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.

My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

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

I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue?

People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.