"Stop dreaming." "You're going to be late for school." "Wadley, one bag is enough!" "Wadley!" ""/n overthrowing rne you have done nothing more than cut down the trunk of the tree of black liberty in St. Dorningue." "It will spring back from the roots because they are numerous and deep."" "What happened, Wadley'?" "The school!" "The school is open!" "I know." "Please go get the water, Wadley." "The school is open." "Why can't I go to school?" "Because we have no money." "Do you go to school here'?" "Yes, Madame, I was your student here." "I know that, Wadley, but actually, this is a new school." "Did your mother pay the money'?" "No, there is no money." "Well, I'm sorry... but you have to go, Wadley." "Come back when they can pay." "Has your mother paid yet, Wadley'?" "Has your mother paid the money'?" "Will you leave, Wadley'?" "You need to go home, Wadley." "This is the last time I'll tell you." "If you send me away," "I vvill come back every day until I can stay." "What's this'?" "Even if you send me away, I will oome back every clay until you stop me." "Selfish were my mother and father" "They gave birth to a daughter" "They gave birth to a daughter" "My brothers go to school to study while I, unfortunate, slave at a master's house" "It's a hard life, being beaten every day" "There is a small girl Working here." " I am here to take her." " Why?" "Sit here." "I'm Sergeant Saif." "This is Officer Mansoor." "How old are you, Yasmin?" "Twelve." "Do you go to school?" "We have no money to send a girl to school." "She works with me." "What do you do'?" "We sell tea by the Sixth of October Bridge." "And your husband?" "Jail." "She'sjust a street kid." "No, I'm not a street kid!" "She's probably trying to shake clown a customer..." "Can you tell us Why you're here'?" "I'm a superhero." "A superhero'?" "Stop this nonsense, Yasmin." "Tell them what happened." "I was with my friend Aya." "We were going to get juice." "From the juice man at the roundabout." "He has the best juice." "You were not scared at all'?" "Why not?" "Because I am strong." "I can fight." "He said vve had to stop at his house for a moment." "He said he had juice at his house too." "Your mother said... there was blood on your clothes when you returned home." "Yes, it was a hard battle." "Could you show me your knife'?" "I promise I will return it to you." "Why don't you go with Officer Mansoor... and let me speak to your mother." "Hungry, aren't you?" "Go ahead, eat this delicious cookie." "It's good you didn't kill that cart driver." "L'cl hate to put a smart girl like you in jail." "These are very difficult cases." "Very hard to prove." "Perhaps... we can get you some money." "The man has a cart and an apartment." "Some means." "My God." "What are you saying?" "I would rather die than touch any of his money." "She is my daughter." "You see how she was hurt." "I only want justice!" "Justice?" "Nowadays?" "I'm sorry." "Yasmin, can you show us where he lives'?" "Well." "You know, I have a daughter a little bit younger than you." "But I'm afraid... she's not as strong or brave as you." "Perhaps you should meet her." "I would like her to learn to be a superhero too." "Stop dreaming!" "You'll get us all killed one day!" "Ruksana'?" "Come here." "Bring your notebook with you." "Drawing pictures?" "Drawing pictures in math class!" "Do you think this class is a joke'?" "Get out!" "Amma and Baba are home." "You're going to get a blasting." "Babafs calling you." "Come on." "You know how hard I struggle to send you to school so you can study and make something of yourself." "I don't send you to school to dravv- do I'?" "Hovv many notebooks have you ruined with your doodles?" "I Won't do it again." "I'll only dravvthis in this book and I vvill study really hard." "I promise." "Hey, what are you doing'?" "Drawing?" "Show us." "Don't be scared, We're your friends." "We Won't hurt you." "Just relax." "Why are you scared'?" "Come on." "Come with us, We'll play in the alley." "Daddy can't help you!" "We Won't do a thing to you." "I want to go back to our village!" "I Won't leave." "We came so far to educate our girls so they can lead better lives." "I Won't give up now." "School!" "What's the point if street thugs attack them?" "We've come so far..." "Our girls are doing Well in school and learning fast." "We can't go back." "Who do you think you are'?" "A" "And vve run this night shelter While you Watch TV'?" "Go and do some Work!" "The rest of you as Well!" "Hey Q0. go, go all of you..." "Come on!" "Tear clown this slum!" "Everybody out!" "These are our homes!" "Please don't do this!" "You were right." "Let's go... back to the village." "You were right." "We've come this far with such difficulty." "Why should we let them drive us away'?" ""The Black Heralds," by the great poet Cesar Vallejo" "There are blows in life, so powerful..." "I don't know!" "Blows as from God's hatred;" "like a riptide of human suffering rammed into a single soul..." "I don't know!" "The first time I read that it took my breath away." "The rhythm of it." "The force." "For me, it was unforgettable." "My name is Senna." "I am fourteen years old." "I live and study in La Rinconada." "If a Warrior's name was my father's first gift to me, a brave heart was his second." "There is no hardship I can't overcome." "He comes looking for hope and finds nothing but misery" "For every golden ring, two thousand tons of rock must move." "Don't die." "I love you too much!" "But the corpse" "Ay/ He kept OH dying" "I could add the earnings in my head, as fast as the owner with his calculator." "I told myself I was a warrior, a defender of the Weak." "He needed me to stay strong." "I sang to him... did all his sums." "I never saw my father again." "And then" "I found this, this poem about the black heralds of death, about the powerful blows fate can rain on us..." "I don't know." "Then all the people of the earth surrounded him." "The sad corpse gazed at them, touched." "Slowly he sat up, embraced the first man and began to walk" "And so I say."