I Think Haiti Is A Place That

I Think It's Hard For An Outsider To Capture The Flavor Of A Community And All Its Nuances, So Ultimately Haitian-americans Need To Start Sharing Intimate Accounts Of Their Stories.

Write What Haunts You. What Keeps You Up At Night. What You Are Unable To Get Out Of Your Mind. Sometimes They Are The Hardest Things To Write, But Those Are Often The Things That Are Worth Investigating By You Specifically. . .

All Anyone Can Hope For Is Just A Tiny Bit Of Love, Like A Drop In A Cup If You Can Get It, Or A Waterfall, A Flood, If You Can Get That Too.

I Think It's Hard To Write A Book About Happiness Because Fiction Requires Tension And Complication.

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.