Once You're Involved In The Work, It's

After Writing Fiction For So Long, I Like The Discovery Element Of Nonfiction, In The Sense That When You Find The Right Information, It Feels Like Gold.

There Is A Frustration Too, That At Moments When There's Not A Coup, When There Are Not People In The Streets, That The Country Disappears From People's Consciousness.

America's Relationship With Haiti Has Always Been Very Complicated. I Often Say To People, "before We Came To America, America Came To Us In The Form Of The American Occupation From 1915 To 1934."

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

I Think All Artists Are Looking For A Subject Or Are Sometimes Unsure Of Their Subject, But Immigrant Artists Bring Another Culture To That And They Bring Also The Place Where The Original Culture Meets The New Culture.