Dede mirabal biography of martin luther king
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When readers tell me that reading In the Time of the Butterflies changed or inspired them in some way, I feel a sense of deep gratitude and also affirmation/confirmation that all those years of struggling to become a writer were worth it. So many discouragements made me lose faith along the way. In those early years, ethnic writers, writers of color, women writers were often dismissed, ignored, turned back from those canonical borders set up by the guardians of Literature, sent to the kitchen of minor writers, as Langston Hughes once wrote in his poem, “I, too.” It was a long, tough road, “abriendo caminos,” that still need to be widened and opened for the next and the next generation of wonderful storytellers from communities historically kept off the shelves of American literature. But I would be misrepresenting my motivation if I tried to make myself out as the lofty, liberating writer who set out to write the Mirabal story. Reader, I needed to write this story down for myself, my sisters, my familia, especially Papi. I was haunted by it. And so I researched it, I wrote it, and rewrote it, with all my heart and passion in it. So possessed was I that when I was done, I had to do a kind of exorcism so I could move on. I gathered all my little talisman objects, my special pe
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Mirabal Sisters
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