I’m very concerned about people. I’m concerned about Trinidadians and Haitians and Americans and the things that have happened to us since slavery and what has helped to form us all since slavery, even though some of us believe that it hasn’t mattered in our life and every generation has to find its own truth. Truth is not encompassing one person alone. Your mother’s truth becomes a part of yours, so generational truths have a way of sifting down…The full responsibility of writers I believe should be trying to make the world a better place for us all to live in.

—Rosa Guy, author of My Love, My Love, or, The Peasant Girl