"One of the first things I was told in Haiti is that all families have at least one member in the army, at least one m…"

"I think that we often tend not to face the pages of our history that upset us. I would have thought that there would …"

"Poetry, of course, is special, unique. It is a metamorphosis of language that transforms both reader and poet, an exq…"

"I like this back and forth between the past and the present, between memory and reality."

"I am more and more convinced that the future of Haitian literature rests in a broadened set of topics. It cannot deal…"

"Contact with books pushed me toward writing. In books I found a special space of the imagination, and I wanted to cre…"

"This image of the condemned books remains for me one of the strongest images of the repression, this repression of kn…"

"While writing Rosalie l’infâme, I rediscovered the history of the revolution, I learned about the struggles of the en…"

"I feed off of my observations, above all. Sometimes it just takes a remark for an idea for a story or a character to …"

"The solution for a country is never outside the country; it should emerge, and grow and develop, from within. We can’…"