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My dead sleep in this earth; this soil is tainted red

with the blood of generations of men who carry my name;

I am the direct descendant, twice over, of the very man

who founded this nation.

Therefore, I have decided to stay here,

and possibly, to die here.

—Jacques Stephen Alexis (1922–1961)

author, excerpt from his letter to Haitian

president François Duvalier, June 2, 1960