Victoria Santa Cruz: I had a little group of friends, and I was the only black one. One day there was a little girl among them with blond hair. And she immediately said, If the little black girl wants to play with us, Ill leave. And I thought, Who is she? She had just arrived and was already dictating the law. What a surprise it was when my friends told me, You can leave, Victoria. I said, What? It was to suffer something very important. I have written a small book in Spanish and English in which I say that suffering hides the door. The secret is not to leave, but to go through it. I was little, and when I saw that my friends rejected me, I left. But I never forgot. I never forgot the importance of suffering. The point is not to be a victim. I asked myself, Who suffers? And why? And other feelings began to emerge. I never told my father or my mother. It was something that I had to taste and discover for myself. That girl stimulated something in me without knowing so. And I came to discover what it means to stand on your feet without looking for someone to blame, suffering but discovering things. I began to discover life. The enemy lives at home. And nowadays its difficult for someone to insult me, because of the things life has taught me. I danced the Charleston since I was young, and little by little I began to discover the meaning of dance, the importance of dance and of African things. Human beings dont know their origin. How is it that they criticize and despise one another so much? Whites despise blacks. Blacks despise blacks. And Indians despise Indians. So what does it mean? Human beings dont know what they are. So when you start to understand, to discover it, you see. You say, What am I doing? What is it to be black? What is it to be white? What is it to be blond? And we begin to discover life, and we start to understand many, many important things and to see that human beings dont know where they are. Its terribly important to know that there is no revolution without evolution. And at this point, I know who I am. I know who we are, and we have to do something to be free and do this or that other thing to show others that I am superior. We shouldnt be stupid. -
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