This face wrinkled in the mirror is not mine. Nor these tortos and doloridos fingers are mine. I am not that I interrogate myself concerning what I made of wrong. Nor I am these slow and irregular gestures. Everything this that if it shows as if is I simply is not. As many voices are others that I go recognizing to the few. One of them is of my grandmother who cried out for my mother.
Another one is of my mother already with the slipper in the hand. Before these voices it had others that sleep in the esquecimento of the times. Aflitas, lost, sultry voices. Tired voices to the side of the river that ran without stopping. Hands to roll bread and to nail button. This face wrinkled in the mirror is the neighbor of my mother. That one that we saw to leave secretely when went down the night.
This perfume that incendeia to my was given me spirit by the blacks of my grandfather. I more learned with them to be than a face in the mirror. I learned with them to leave itself to lead for the tambores that make my heart to beat. I am all they. I am my grandmother and my mother I am the neighbor, the blacks, the teacher who did not marry. I am the dancer tapeworm of the glassware, the laundrywoman, all the saints and all putas. I am woman!
Much more for the terrible misery the one that had been shot (RIBEIRO, 1995 p.221). The fight for the freedom, then, was only the first step for the attainment of the racial equality, therefore racism already guided the Brazilian society after the abolition and, in this direction, it affirms Ribeiro (1995, P. 200): ' ' the fight most arduous of the African black and its Brazilian descendants was, still is, the conquest of a place and a legitimate participant paper in the society nacional' '. For Darcy Ribeiro (1995), the current Brazilian ruling classes, made of descendants of old gentlemen of slaves, the same keep for the blacks vile disdain of long ago. The blacks continue being seen as the culprits of its proper disasters, which were and still they are explained as characteristic of the race and not as resulted of the slavery and the oppression. This deturpada vision is also assimilated by the mulatos even for the blacks that obtain to ascend socially, which if adds to the contingent white to discriminate the black mass. In this direction, it is necessity to stand out that exactly when the black revolt against its equal ones, this happens in result of the discrimination imposed for the white. In other words, the black starts to suffer for not being white, in the measure where the white man strap of the black all value, all originalidade, all humanity. 
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