Anger Is A Wasted Emotion.

When People Think About This Religion, They'll Say "voodoo" This And "voodoo" That In The Way The Hollywood Movies Show It: The Sticking Of Pins In Dolls. It's Very Different Than Vodou - Which Is A Religion That Comes To Haiti From Our Ancestors In Africa. I Want To Differentiate It From The Stereotypical, Sensationalized View That We See Of The Religion.

You Have All These People In The City And Everything Has Become Centralized. If You Live Outside The City And You Need A Birth Certificate Or Some Official Paper From The Government, You Have To Travel To The City.

These Were Our Bedtime Stories. Tales That Haunted Our Parents And Made Them Laugh At The Same Time. We Never Understood Them Until We Were Fully Grown And They Became Our Sole Inheritance.

The Past Is Like The Hair On Our Head. I Moved To New York When I Was Twelve, But You Always Have This Feeling That Wherever You Come From, You Physically Leave It, But It Doesn't Leave You.

There Are Many Possible Interpretations Of What It Means To Create Dangerously, And Albert Camus, Like The Poet Osip Mandelstam, Suggests That It Is Creating As A Revolt Against Silence, Creating When Both The Creation And The Reception, The Writing And The Reading, Are Dangerous Undertakings, Disobedience To A Directive.