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When You Write ,it's Like Braiding Your Hair. Taking A Handful Of Coarse Unruly Strands And Attempting To Bring Then Unity.

In Haiti You Had The Duvaliers For 29 Years And They Were Very Well Supported By The United States.

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.

People Think That There Is A Country There That These People Are Only Around When They Are On Cnn. I Don't Think That's Limited To Haiti.

It's Interesting To See People Overcome Things. Because If You Didn't Overcome, You Wouldn't Be Writing It.