“A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.”
—from THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe
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Sandra Cisneros reads from her story “Beautiful and Cruel” from The House on Mango Street
“I have decided not to grow up tame like the others, who lay their necks on the threshold, waiting for the ball and chain.”
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