We've Had Fiction From The Time Of

The Way The Media Cycle Works, The Way The News Works, And The Way People's Attention Span Works, Is That We Only Learn That People Exist When There Is Crisis.

Napoleon Had Been Fighting This Army Of Slaves And Free People In Haiti And It Depleted His Forces. And After The Revolution, When The French Were Driven Out, They Stopped And Sold This Big Chunk Of North America To The Americans For Very Little Money.

People Are Just Too Hopeful, And Sometimes Hope Is The Biggest Weapon Of All To Use Against Us. People Will Believe Anything.

Even When I Think Of Writing Fiction, It's Being Kind Of A Liar, A Storyteller, A Weaver, And There's That Sense Of How Much Of This Is Your Life. The Story Is A Way You Unravel Your Life From Behind A Mask.

That Has Always Been A Strength Of Haiti: Beyond Crisis, It Has Beautiful Art; It Has Beautiful Music. But People Have Not Heard About Those As Much As They Heard About The Coups And So Forth. I Always Hope That The People Who Read Me Will Want To Learn More About Haiti.