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To appreciate the present, one must have a knowledge of the past…to know where we go, we must know from where we came…

— Pura Belpré

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Source: On how she felt that stories conveyed history (as quoted in “Pura Belpré Lights the Storyteller’s Candle: Reframing the Legacy of a Legend and What it Means for the Fields of Latino/a Studies and Children’s Literature”)
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