I've said before that Creole is not simply a category of people — it is a process of becoming. I want to push that idea further, because I think most people hear it as a nice turn of phrase without grasping what it actually asks of you. From Inherited Noun to Living Verb If Creole is a noun, it's something you either have or don't — inherited once, fixed forever, requiring nothing further of you. If Creole is a verb, it's something you do, continuously, for as long as you cla