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It's a great, great crowd.

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I can't see you for the
lights, but I saw you before.

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Jimmy Santiago Baca has become
a legend at a very young age.

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He has gone from an
orphanage to the streets

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to prison, five years in
a maximum security prison,

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to become one of the
best-known writers in America.

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He's produced seven
volumes of poetry,

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a novel, a book
of short stories,

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two films, and
several other things

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I've probably overlooked--

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has been very well
received critically.

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He devotes his life now to
working with at-risk youth

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and people in prison.

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He's been a great
inspiration to all of us.

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He's so cool that he's
backstage right now trying

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to decide what
he's going to read.

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It gives me enormous pleasure
to present legend Jimmy Santiago

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Baca.

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[APPLAUSE]