"It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by cemented houses."

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I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds.

— Uwem Akpan