They Say Behind Mountains Are More Mountains.

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

In Terms Of The Idea Of Long-term Occupation - I Have Been Reading A Little Bit More About This Period - And You Can See In That Occupation Are Many Lessons For The Current Occupation Of Iraq. So We Have These Connections That Go Way Back That People Aren't Aware Of.

My Models Were Oral, Were Storytellers. Like My Grandmothers And My Aunts. It's True, A Lot Of People In My Life Were Not Literate In A Formal Sense, But They Were Storytellers. So I Had This Experience Of Just Watching Somebody Spin A Tale Off The Top Of Her Head. I Loved That.

Language Is Such A Powerful Thing. After The Earthquake, I Went To Haiti And People Were Talking About How [they] Described This Feeling Of Going Through An Earthquake. People Really Didn't Have The Vocabulary - Before We Had Hurricanes. I'd Talk With People And They'd Say, "we Have To Name It; It Has To Have A Name."

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.