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Olhos D'Água
(watered eyes)
CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO
"I think of Dorvi all the time. He is for me an incomplete present and an empty future. Probably Dorvi won't come back anymore. He who had a way of living rooted in this desire speech:
- We agreed not to die.
- There must be a way to not die so soon and to live a less cruel life."
"We are full of hope, but not blind in the face of all our difficulties."
CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO
"The other day, late at night, I heard a writer say that he was perplexed by the hunger in the world. Perplexed! I asked him to be kind, the Christian charity and to include all types of hunger there, including mine, which may be different from others.(…)
Perhaps our Orixás who are Humans and Gods could describe to this writer other famines, thus increasing his perplexity even more."
CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO
"The young man saw women, men, and even children, still half asleep, go out to work and come back poor as they were, piled up with just tiredness."
CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO
"There was the God-child with open arms. Naked, poor, empty, and cold like him. Neither the store lights nor the false stars could hide his poverty and loneliness."
CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO
"One night years ago, I woke up sharply and a strange question burst from my mouth. What color were my mother's eyes?"
CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO
"And it was in her grandmother's delirium, in the hallucinated form of her last days, that she, Querença, would always dampen her dreams so that they would flourish and be fulfilled alive and real."