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CÉLIA  SAID: "I’m tired of being called “morena”!".

It’s extremely sad when someone says this to you: “Ah, stop this, saying that you’re black … you’re not one of those big black girls … you’re morena!!!! As if being a black woman means something black, a curse, filth that society has to swallow. Accept that being black is something else, and more … To be black, to manifest this skin in Brazil and in any other place, you have to be special. And I am. And we ARE!

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