Remember Haiti

“If the world is a vale of tears, Haiti is the best watered corner on the globe.  Since I was born Haitian, sainthood seemed to me to be the only way to attract Christ’s attention to a planet without tenderness or consolation.”
Haitian poet, essayist, and educator, Rene Depestre, from the short story, “Rosena on the Mountain,” in The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, p. 119.