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What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because, you know, people are such fusions now, of so many different cultures.

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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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