Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.

Every time you hear anyone talk about the Caribbean, whether it's Caribbeans themselves or people outside, there's always talk about women's bodies. Talk about this voluptuousness, this kind of stereotype of what a Caribbean person is. And I think these are stereotypes that even people inside the culture, we actually sometimes claim them and we're very proud.

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.

And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.