I Think All Artists Are Looking For

I Was Neither Doing These People Nor Myself A Favor By Showing Up When My Heart Wasn't In It. There Were Not Getting The Real Me, The Whole Me, The True Me.

In Terms Of The Idea Of Long-term Occupation - I Have Been Reading A Little Bit More About This Period - And You Can See In That Occupation Are Many Lessons For The Current Occupation Of Iraq. So We Have These Connections That Go Way Back That People Aren't Aware Of.

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?

To Start With, For Example This Year, 2004, Is The Bicentennial Of Haitian Independence.

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.