| «Maestro, ¿cuál es la fuente de su genio?»
| "Master, what is the source of your genius?"
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| «Bueno, yo creo que la fuente de mi genio es precisamente la estructura
| "Well, I think the source of my genius is precisely the structure
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| molecular del ácido desoxirribururú…»
| molecular structure of deoxyribobururu acid…”
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| Eso es ácido desoxi… desoxirribunocleico
| That's deoxy… deoxyribocleic acid.
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| «¿Se lo toma? | "Do you take it? |
| ¿O cómo es eso?»
| Or how is that?
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| «No, no, eso no se toma, eso es una cosa que se nace»
| «No, no, that is not taken, that is something that is born»
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| «I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of
| «I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of
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| today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. | today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. |
| It is a dream deeply rooted that one
| It is a dream deeply rooted that one
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| day this nation will rise up»
| day this nation will rise up»
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| «Gloria al bravo pueblo
| "Glory to the brave people
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| Que el yugo lanzó»
| That the yoke threw
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| Solamente un sentido
| only one sense
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| Simplemente un motivo
| just a reason
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| Educar y callar hijueputas
| Educate and shut up motherfuckers
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| Mientras esté vivo
| As long as I'm alive
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| «No voy a hablar de la facultad que los psicólogos llaman inteligencia,
| “I am not going to talk about the faculty that psychologists call intelligence,
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| voy a llamar lo que los historiadores de la cultura y el arte llaman la
| I'm going to call what historians of culture and art call the
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| inteligencia, y algunos, con una palabra tomada de las lenguas europeas
| intelligence, and some, with a word borrowed from European languages
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| modernas no hispánicas, la intelligentsia. | non-Hispanic moderns, the intelligentsia. |
| Es decir, lo que los hombres de
| That is, what the men of
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| pensamiento han dicho, han expresado o han comprendido de la realidad que los
| thought have said, have expressed or have understood of the reality that the
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| rodeaba.»
| surrounded."
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| «When we allow freedom to ring, from every state and every city,
| «When we allow freedom to ring, from every state and every city,
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| we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children,
| we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children,
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| black men and white men, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands»
| black men and white men, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands»
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| «Canserbero. | «Canserbero. |
| Él no va a ser simplemente un intelectual, él no va a ser
| He is not going to be just an intellectual, he is not going to be
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| simplemente un hombre de pensamiento, sino que se va a transformar en un hombre
| just a man of thought, but he is going to transform into a man
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| de acción.»
| of action."
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| «Eso es una cosa que se nace.»
| “That is a thing that is born.”
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| Tengo la vista puesta en representar mi bandera
| I have my sights set on representing my flag
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| Barrio La Pica, Ovallera
| La Pica neighborhood, Ovallera
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| Pa' coñacear el sistema
| To tease the system
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| Sé tocar las almas y hallar lo que buscan esconder:
| I know how to touch souls and find what they seek to hide:
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| La verdad aunque les duela | The truth even if it hurts |