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I think it was a couple of years after Gabriel García Márquez won the Nobel Prize and the so-called Latino boom began. All of a sudden people said, "Hey, these guys may have something important to say."

— Judith Ortiz Cofer Interview (2000)

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I was born a white girl in Puerto Rico but became a brown girl when I came to live in the United States.

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