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I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew gro

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles. – Edwidge Danticat

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You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city. – Edwidge Danticat

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