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01 / evaluation
“Yes. This one, I think, is about humility because we have this expression that we say when someone has died who has contributed a great deal to our culture: we say that a mapou has fallen.”
02 / evaluation
“I think because there’s often so much happening in Haiti, let’s say, that tie — what we would call the umbilical cord — is really married to Haiti.”
03 / evaluation
“I think at that time, President Aristide was part of that decision, and he wanted to return.”
04 / evaluation
“I’m on the council of Centre d’Art d’Haiti, an esteemed institution that goes back several decades now, so there’s still that culture. It’s really a powerful statement, I think, to Haitians and Haitian culture because there’s so many obstacles all the time in the way of artists in Haiti, but they still are thriving and are very .”
05 / evaluation
“One of the things that when you were asking about the outside gaze in Haitian literature, I think sometimes it’s easy to fall into that trap of, like, “Oh, let me throw in some Vodou just to exotify things.”
06 / evaluation
“I think there was so much stacked up against us, and then, in the early 1900s, you had the very long US occupation, and then the dictatorship. I think we were set up, in a way, to fail because this was not meant to exist.”