I Think Novels Just Really

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.

It Seemed From The Media That We Were Being Told That All Haitians Had Aids. At The Time, I Had Just Come From Haiti. I Was Twelve Years Old, And The Building I Was Living In Had Primarily Haitians. A Lot Of People Got Fired From Their Jobs. At School, Sometimes In Gym Class, We'd Be Separated Because Teachers Were Worried About What Would Happen If We Bled. So There Was Really This Intense Discrimination.

Pretend That This Is A Time Of Miracles And We Believe In Them.

You Learned In School That You Have Pencils And Paper Only Because The Trees Gave Themselves In Unconditional Sacrifice.

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