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It's Not A Matter Of Whether The Reviews Of Your Books Are Good Or Bad, It's About Being Taken Seriously, Both As A Woman Writer And As A Writer Of Color. Also, It Worries Me When People Point To A Couple Of Women Writers Or Writers Of Color Who Get Some Attention - And I Am Sometimes Pulled Into That Category - To Prove That Others Are Getting A Fair Shot. It's Like Those People Who Keep Saying That Racism No Longer Exists In This Country Because Barack Obama Was A President Of The United States.

And The Fact That Haiti Was Occupied For 19 Years By The United States, From 1915 To 1934.

More And More People Are Able To Access Information - Thank Goodness We Have The Internet And If You Are Interested You Can Find Things. Which Is Different Than Even 20 Years Ago.

Especially Moments When Things Are Very Difficult And Complicated For Me And I Am Still Trying To Grasp What Is Happening And I Am Still Trying To Understand And To Reach Family Back Home.

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