We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes….

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice..

I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a vital form. Not only do….

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward..

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to c….

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of ….

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her..

My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .….

But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward..

I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness..