Wonderful Thing About Novels Is

Aids Was Something That Was Put Upon Us [as Haitians], And We Were Immediately Identified With It. That Is Unfair. That Is Unjust. I Always Say, "we Are All People Living With Aids." It's Not Like You Can Avoid It. It's Part Of Our World.

I Would Hate For People To Generalize About Every Haitian From Something That One Haitian Did, Or A Group Of Haitians Did.

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.

I'm Not Saying Cubans Don't Deserve Asylum, But If It Is A National Security Issue, There Are People Who Are Coming From Cuba On Hijacked Airplanes. Why Isn't That A National Security Issue?

These Were Our Bedtime Stories. Tales That Haunted Our Parents And Made Them Laugh At The Same Time. We Never Understood Them Until We Were Fully Grown And They Became Our Sole Inheritance.