Anger Is A Wasted Emotion.

We Try To Keep The Beautiful Memories, But Other Things From The Past Creep Up On Us.

The Justification - The Idea That We Have A Right To Invade Another Country And Determine Another People's Destiny - Is Frightening. And I Fear Really For The Future Of That Occupation. What Happens Now, And Twenty Years From Now, And Forty Years From Now, Given Our Case? People In The United States May Feel Like When We Don't See It On Cnn Twenty-four Hours A Day, It Sort Of Disappears. But It Doesn't Disappear For The People Who Have To Live Under Occupation - And Their Children And Their Children's Children.

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.

The Whole Military Structure In Haiti That Existed Until The Early 1990s Was Put In Place By The American Occupation. At The Top There Were Southern White Officers, Who Led An Army That Crushed The Indigenous Resistance - The Cacos. A High-ranking U.s. Officer Said When He Arrived, "to Think These Niggers Speak French!" Later, Haitian Officers Attended The Notorious School Of The Americas At Fort Benning. The Threat From The U.s. Is Something That Is Always Hanging Over People's Heads: If We Don't Behave, We'll Have Occupation Again.

I Can't Wait For Both My Daughters To Be Old Enough To Read All My Books. I Loved It Every Time I Saw My Parents Acting Like More Than Just My Parents. And I'm Looking Forward To That With My Daughters Too. I Am Looking Forward To Having Them Discover Me As Someone Completely Other Than Their Mother.