Madison Smartt Bell

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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.

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I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.

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John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.

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