1. Coralita was born on September 8, 1950 to Hughe Toussaint and Hazel Peters in Roseau, Dominica

2. In Jean de La Fontaine's famous fable The Oak and the Reed — Le chêne et le roseau, the reed tells the proud oak: "I bend, and break not" —"Je plie, et ne romps pas", "before the tree's fall."