“My African roots made me what I am today. They’re the reason I’m from the Dominican Republic. They’re the reason I exist at all. To these roots I owe everything.” BlackRepublicAfricaLatinoCaribbeanAfroDominican Author:Junot Díaz
“They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Thainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú Americanus, or more colloquially, fukú-generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and Doom of the New World.” FictionCurseDominican RepublicDominicanAntillesTainos Book:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao