I come from...

I come from the high lands … the mountainous lands…

            I come from the land of the Tainos and Arawaks and their blood still flow through my veins.

            I come from the ancient beatings of the drums of the mother land…

            I come from the world’s first black republic …

            I come from the vodoun culture…

            I come from Bohio, ‘Nan lakou lakay’, (home)…

            I come from Quisqueya, “the mother of all lands”…

            I come from Haiti, “a land which is ours”...