Miriam Alves

Miriam Aparecida Alves (born 1952 in São Paulo) is a Portuguese-language writer. Quotes I am an artist. I need my space and some times it is difficult for people to understand this truth. For an artist, there is no other option than to be an artist. We don't choose this thing. We are chosen for this thing. I did not choose this. I know people who have tried to reject this vocation, but they are not happy. interview in Obsidian (2012-13) Every child that is born inherits a spiritual ancestry...Your ancestry is your place and if you do not locate it, you will be out of place. interview in Obsidian (2012-13) Interview in Fourteen female voices from Brazil (2002) book by Elzbieta Szoka Globalization is a process that concentrates all of the benefits into a few hands and the garbage gets thrown in the neigbor's backyard. And that neighbor is always Africa and Latin America. I have a commitment to myself regarding my sensibilities. I am a harp with well-stretched strings, and when the call comes, I play. My antennae are out to the world. If the world is disturbed, so am I. If the world is at peace, so am I. I would support the party that shares the viewpoint of the heirs of slavery and slavery-related capitalism, the heirs of the garbage dump; yes, that's who we are. Capitalism is the child of slavery. The blacks were used as part of a system, and later when that system no longer served a purpose, they were tossed out. When I write a poem it is because I am filled with passion, with love, or because I am angry, or because I am distressed, or because I am happy. I go through several kinds of emotions and I talk to those emotions, which are not only mine. They pass through me, but are not mine alone. When I am writing, I want to open myself to learn about what you are. And when you read what I have written, you are opening yourself to knowing what I am. The song also passes through all of these emotions, but they are emotions that I am developing with the intent of transmitting various things. And like a recipe for making a cake, emotions are the ingredients, and the type of cake is the intent. When the cake is ready, I cut it and give it to people. Sometimes it's good, and sometimes it's not. Sometimes my inspiration is taken from the recipes of others. To be black woman in Brazil is complicated. Black women and white women in Brazil have different lives. When white women talk about independence, they talk about leaving the home to go to work, whereas the black woman has been working for many, many years. After slavery was abolished, there was no employment for black men. The black woman went to work and continued working in the home of the white. For the black woman independence would be not to work, unless you mean to work in her very own home. When feminist ideas arrived in Brazil in the 19th century, we were in the throes of slavery. Which women were talking? White women were doing the talking. The black person did not have any categories: man, woman, child. The black person was just that - black. The women were the "mammies"; the children were the "pickaninnies." It is still like this today: if you're white, then the term is child; if you're black, then the term is nothing. External links GoodReads page Poesia na Alma page (in Portuguese) literafro page (in Portuguese) Category:1952 births Category:Living people Category:Poets from Brazil Category:Short story writers from Brazil Category:Women authors from Brazil Category:Women born in the 1950s