I Would Hate For People

On Some Levels, You Can Also Have This Feeling That We Are Being Duped, Somehow. And That The World Is At Play For Something You Would Understand More If It Were Pure Ideology. It Is A Very Strange Time And Also Basic Things Are Being Taken Away.

Vodou Is One Of The Religions Practiced In Haiti, A Rich Religion For The People.

No One Will Love You More Than You Love Your Pain.

We All Have A Tendency To Over Generalize Our Individual Experiences. After I've Published Something, I'll Meet Someone Who Says, "i'm Haitian, And I Don't Know This, So It Must Not Be True." Even If We're Talking About A Work Of Fiction. I've Gotten Very Angry Myself Reading Many Things About Haiti. We're Not A Monolithic Group; No Group Is. Also, It's Important To Keep In Mind The Genre In Which We Are Writing. Fiction Is Full Of Invented Stories About Exceptional People In Exceptional Situations. Those Situations Are Not Always Cheery Or Celebratory.

There Are Many Possible Interpretations Of What It Means To Create Dangerously, And Albert Camus, Like The Poet Osip Mandelstam, Suggests That It Is Creating As A Revolt Against Silence, Creating When Both The Creation And The Reception, The Writing And The Reading, Are Dangerous Undertakings, Disobedience To A Directive.