Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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18 published records
01 / recommendation
“I own a Zobop by Liautaud, by the way. Great work. It’s by the fireplace. Why is it you think that Black African Americans have not evolved as natural collectors of Haitian art?”
02 / belief
“Let’s start with one about you. Now, you moved to the United States from Haiti, I believe, when you were 12.”
03 / belief
“I think, maybe, as a Haitian American with the history that I’ve just outlined to you, with having come out of a culture of revolution and the constant fight that Haitians have always had, we can certainly identify with that.”
04 / belief
“If you want to diminish or slight someone, you call them names. So that’s also a timely one, I think.”
05 / belief
“If I think of the Haitian arts today, I think of painting possibly as having peaked between the ’40s and the ’70s.”
06 / belief
“There’s a shift, I think, in Haitian cultural history. If you think of the 1960s or ’70s, Haitian cultural history is centered in Haiti.”
07 / belief
“I think radio now is part of a series of many different ways that people get information.”
08 / belief
“I think now, some people — I can’t speak for everyone — but I think most people who study Haitian literature will say that it’s now a multilingual literature.”
09 / 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.”
10 / recommendation
“If I were minister, first of all, I would make sure people who are better qualified than me were minister of education. But one thing I think would be important, to actually make sure every single child is educated and to make sure that Creole is part of the education because often, children just jump into school in French, and there’s a lot of rote memorization.”
11 / 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.”
12 / evaluation
“I think at that time, President Aristide was part of that decision, and he wanted to return.”
13 / prediction
“I think if you stayed there, you would be reducing your possible level of enjoyment because what’s most in that early period, the Centre d’Art period in the ’40s, like the early period, when the tourism that you were talking about, when people went to Haiti, what they bought the most was what they call naif, primitif art, which is super colorful, really beautiful figures, often market scenes.”
14 / 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 .”
15 / preference
“There’s this mountain-connected saying that I love, which says “de mòn pa janm kontre, men nou menm petèt yon jou nou ka kontre,” which means — and it’s a great closer in a way — it means two mountains can never meet but perhaps, you and I, we can meet again.”
16 / preference
“There’s wonderful food throughout the Caribbean. But Haitian food, in particular, I love because we have great spices, and even if the food is a little fad in some cases .”
17 / 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.”
18 / 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.”