"I almost feel like saying there is no Portuguese language, there are languages in Portuguese." "A language that became very diverse..." "This land, beautiful land, is a daughter of Portugal." "We speak the same language, but it's not spoken the same way." "What makes memory..." "are words, family conversations." "The Portuguese language... perhaps it's the only means of communication here." "To speak Portuguese is to remember your homeland." "I believe not to forget your own language is the most important thing." "Various cultures:" "Asia, Africa, Europe." "Deep down, one does not travel geographically... but through persons." ""Everyday 200 million people dream in portuguese." "These are some of them."" ""LINGUA" " LIVES IN P0RTUGUESE"" "I have a bakery here." "0ne oven is on wood, and the other is electrical." "But I prefer to bake my bread here, because people in Goa, like bread made on wood." "This word comes from the Portuguese." "Pão (bread)." "In Konkani dialect, there is no, What do you say word?" "For pão." "Goa is a big village, and Fontainhas district is like an island." "All these people who live there are Portuguese." "And the name, maybe, comes from Portugal." "Fontainhas, Alto Guimarães, Rua Doiro." "My parents spoke Portuguese." "In school I studied Portuguese." "And I liked to speak Portuguese." "Good language, beautiful language." "I love to talk in Portuguese." "There are few people who speak Portuguese in Goa." "You'll find some in Fontainhas, here in Panjim..." "People who talk Portuguese may have passed away." "Maybe the teachers have also died." "I speak Portuguese, I speak English, I speak Hindi, Arabic..." "But I never forgot Portuguese." "This is Inhaca Island... and right behind, almost symbolically, is the Island of the Portuguese." "As if it were an island I could return to, my origin." "Between the islands you have this channel... which is a zone in-between tides." "Crossed like a person's soul." "Crossed by the ghosts that dig this ground." "Millions of crabs that revolve the ground." "Which is my own ground." "I worked here for some years." "And I come back many times." "Now more as a writer than a biologist." "I believe the Portuguese language is one of the most lively... and dynamic European languages." "Not for any specific richness... but for an historical reason." "Brazil was born and Portugal gave origin... to a son who is bigger than its father." "And the language began to be driven by other cultural processes." "And then there were the African countries, which introduced different modulations and colours... to the Portuguese Language." "Which has become a language... that accepts a lot, and is capable of introducing elements... that enrich Portuguese." "Not only as a language but also as a way of translating cultures." "What is impressive in a historical process... beyond the language, is how these cultures mixed." "And at a certain stage, Portuguese lost its owner." "Thankfully." "And it made love in the ground, in the dust of Brazil, and in the dust of Mozambique." "So, it got dirty, in the sense Manuel de Barros gives us." "It got dirty in the sense that it was able to marry the ground." "I was born in Maputo, Mozambique." "And came to Portugal when I was eight." "I'm Angolan and I lived there till I was 12 and went to Congo." "Finally, I've been here for five years." "It's the historical Lisbon that you get to know by train." "Not the recent one... of ghettos and all." "Which isn't really this Lisbon." "It's like a village atmosphere." "People know each other, as they don't in the suburbs." "All neighbours know each other, talk from window to window." "It's a funny ambient." "It has a lot of windows, it's windy... and much better than modern transports." " It's friendly." " It's more silent and slow." "It's not silent." "We speak and use all this." "The sub-tenses, the verbs, the adjectives, the conjunctions." "Everything, let's say, we use it as if it has always existed." "Language has changed, for sure, from a rudimentary state." "And little by little, it has become more complex." "It has become able to express feelings, emotions." "Which means that the more words we know, the more we are able to say what we think and feel." "In the XVII century, there was a man called..." "Antônio Vieira, Father Antônio Vieira, who lived in Brazil... and defended the natives." "He was a diplomat, and a speaker," "Who used to say:" ""Affections are like lives." "For there is no greater sign that they must last little, than the fact that they have lasted long."" "Well, that can be said in a much simpler way." "Lives and affections, feelings, loves," "The more they have lasted, the closer they are from ending." "Should we speak in such a complicated way in our daily communication?" "Probably not, of course, but maybe at that time." "And it is certain, the way of communicating... was richer in expression than it is today." "More and more we have less words, we use less words." "I mean at the time we lived in caves and did not know verbs." "Nor substantives, but we said..." "And were able to understand ourselves, I assume we understood ourselves." "And yes, they ended up understanding themselves, of course." "And it was from these first, primitive sounds, that language was built upon." "The idioms, the languages, they were all built this way." "It seems that we are in an involution process, that we are going back to the caves." "Perhaps one of these days, after all." "To tell a woman that you like her, you may say..." "or something like that, she will be very happy because someone said, in this... rather weird way, that she is loved." "Good morning everyone, I hereby bring you today." "This delicious candy, strawberry flavour." "Each pack costs 50 cents." "But before any manifests, I will offer you a free sample." "If you are satisfied and feel like taking possession of it... all you have to do is call me and I will attend you with love and tenderness." "Regardless of being black or white." "Does anyone go for candy?" "Each pack costs only 50 cents." "0ne pack." "Two..." "Anyone else?" "I'm thankful." "I'm thankful." "Sometimes you even feel like taking the candy, but unfortunately your pocket is empty." "But don't be sad." "Today is Payday." "...and later on we'll surely meet again." "You are now in the village of Loutolim in Southern Goa." "This house belongs to me." "This was my ancestors' house and is 320 years old." "The house has many stories, the life of my ancestors." "Jokes." "They lived... a calm life." "Lots of fun." "Parties, balls." "I think the easy life, the "sossegado" still exists in this village." "In spite of all our occupations... this village has remained calm... and hasn't had much development like other places." "I listen to Portuguese music since I was a little baby." "The Goa Radio transmitted everything... in Portuguese in the time of Salazar." "Nothing from India." "Nothing!" "There was a band that played out here." "The old ladies would sit on the veranda." "To listen to the music, talk and gossip." "It's very nice to live in these houses, but it's very expensive to maintain such big places." "Carpenters, everything's expensive and difficult." "But, we try to do it." "We always sacrifice ourselves to maintain the house." "This village already existed before the Portuguese came." "It was Hindi village." "After, we were converted to Christianism, and our name was changed to Miranda." "The ancestors of this house never worked." "0nly my father was a civil servant." "The others never worked." "They lived off the rent from the properties." "I can say it was a hotel." "It was a hotel." "And now it's not a hotel anymore." "It's the permanent residence for a person." "I know the Grande Hotel since 1983." "I was born and grew up here." "There are various places I know." "Though I have never really travelled far." "I've never been away from my building for more than 3 months, and I know it perfectly." "In a house you find 10, 11 people." "That's not normal." "And also, some other people see that they don't have houses and live in the elevators." "You can't do that." "Live in caves." "The building changed, but it changed for worse." "We had energy in the corridors." "And then, energy was cut... and those who consider themselves clever, started spoiling the building by cutting wires, and taking lamps away, to sell everything." "I thank you with all my heart for collaborating... with my job." "All this candy weighs 18 kilos." "These hooks are made of aluminum, from butchers." "To hang on the bus." "I have no fix place to go." "Sometimes I'm in Botafogo." "Sometimes I'm in Penha." "Sometimes I'm found at..." "Amen, brother." "I like to make my advertisement, make people laugh." "Cheer the people up." "It's good to face the public." "You end up getting rid of some of your shames in life." "I was a thief, funk music fan, graffiti painter, rapper and an ex-mob leader." "I lived a corrupted life, that got worse everyday." "Fooling and being fooled by others." "I was very well known in Vigário Geral and my nickname was "bull"." "Whenever I stepped into a club it was fight, violence." "A certain day, an evangelic woman had a revelation when she saw me." "God said to her:" ""My servant please talk to him... otherwise, his blood shall fall over your head."" "I was baptized with 0xossi." "But I'm a son of 0xalá," "I have a year and a half of shaved hair." "That's Candomblé (Afro-Brazilian religion)." "After hearing all that this woman had to say," "I said: "I will accept Jesus." "And convert myself to Christianism."" "I had many clothes' brands." "Ciclone, Nike, Nauru," "Athlete's foot, Reebok, many brands." "In the favela (slums) I had most of the brand clothes." "I also thank Roseane, because she's the one who got me off the mud." "So I had to choose." "It was either her or... the damn marijuana and cocaine." "I said no." "I'll choose my beautiful one, my rose." "When I got rid of all clothes." "Some said I was running away from Flávio Negão, who was the favela drug boss, a dangerous man, a true killer." "After I accepted Jesus... and began preaching all over, in the drug shops, he died." "If I were hiding from Flávio Negão... at that time today I would have been deviated." "I've been hit a lot and I don't want it anymore." "The only thing I want is to be happy with Roseane." "Already going, brother?" "Go in peace." "May I brother?" "Good afternoon mommy!" "She is my mother... and she is called Deolinda." "Dinho is my fourth "luck"." "Dinho is," "I can say... an intelligent boy," "If I had the conditions he wouldn't be in the grade he is today." "I don't even know if he'll do the exams this year." "He is a badly used boy." "My mother is on her way to be an old woman." "In no time she'll be sitting at home." "My father is also on the way to be an old man, and I'm the young one." "When they get old and have to sit at home," "I'll have to be around to lend a hand." "And I should replace him, so I become my father." "And he becomes the son." "I should really struggle, struggle to have." "Not struggle to stop." "I should struggle like a man." "Struggle to win." "I think of going further, Depending on the possibilities." "After my studies." "0r if I have a simple chance... of getting out of this country... or getting out of this city..." "I'm not interested in laws, nor in this framing that forces us... to regulate the world." "But I'm interested in the chaotic side of Nature." "This teaching to live with what is not predictable... and is very present in the African culture." "There are other systems of knowledge here... with which I want to exchange things." "We're 30 km away from Maputo." "We can see the city from here." "So there is the symbolical place of modernity." "The birth of a nation with a parliament, political parties, a flag... and on this side, another nation begins." "There are many people from Inhaca who have never been to the capital, 30 km away." "Everytime the elder travel, there's a ceremony on this beach." "As a farewell for someone who is leaving to the other side of the world." "This is my neighbour's house." "Madam Rosa Costa Dias." "We've been friends since our childhood." "We used to play with her brothers." "Now all her brothers are in Portugal... and she lives here alone." "Sometimes when I've nothing to do..." "I like talk with Madam Rosa." "She knows everything that goes on in the village." "And when I want to talk Portuguese..." "I come over to Dona Rosa's and practice Portuguese with her." "She speaks good Portuguese, because she lived in Portugal," "Mozambique and Angola." " I think in Portuguese." " I count in Portuguese." "We have this need to belong to something." "When perhaps the great freedom would be not to belong to anything." "But how can you not belong to the language that you learned?" "The language in which you communicate, and in my case, write?" "If the reader, the book reader, the one who likes to read, is not limited to everything that is being done nowadays, if he goes back, if he starts from the beginning, if he can read the primitives," "and the great writers and then the great poets, the language becomes much more than just a communication tool." "It becomes an inexhaustible mine of beauty and value." "If we think it is, in our case, eight centuries of people writing and speaking Portuguese." "Many things were lost of course, but what is left... what archives and libraries keep to this day... would be enough to spend the rest of our life... plunged into the Portuguese language." "Second mystery:" "The visit of the Virgin Mary... to her cousin Saint Isabel." "From atoms to dust, from atoms to dust." "Good evening every one." "Here I am again, full of joy... to announce a word that saves." "A word that frees a man and a woman's life." "I mean to say that this word... is a word above all others, because it is the word of God." "But Preacher, you might ask, will there be a condemnation?" "Yes, there will be a condemnation." "My friend, the great day for settling accounts between God and Humanity... is scheduled and arranged." "Angola will always be an important reference in my life." "That's where my childhood is." "My family, my people." "That's where a lot of things are." "Everything's ok?" "This is the Mouraria Mall." "A place where you can find various people." "The most cosmopolitan part of the city." "Where you can find the crossing of various cultures here." "When I arrived here in this mall, there were no people." "I rented the shop and... after a year, more Africans came for record stores," "African food." "And then the Indians showed up." "Now the Chinese are the last wave." "And so, we're all here." "Surviving and living well." "Money!" "The portuguese language." "It's the place where perhaps..." "It's the only means of communication here." "Various cultures:" "Asia, Africa, Europe." "Also I like Portuguese." "Portugal..." "He said the Portuguese... are more human, let's say, they're more friendly." "And they treat people well." "0ur daughter was born in Portugal and in the hospital... they give you a Portuguese name." "I chose Vanessa." "It's short and it sounds like Chinese." "The values are being lost." "The identities the cultures." "What is happening today is a mixture, a globalization." "A mix of people's cultures." " Everything's connected." " We're all alike." "0r perhaps we're all like America." "Everything's like America." "The youth here is the same as in France or China because of America." "The way of thinking, the culture." "Perhaps hip-hop and rap." "There's a lot being said about globalization... and multiculturalism in Europe." "But that's a trend here a way of... reflecting things nowadays." "Let's not forget that in the ex-colonies... miscegenation and multiculturalism... are things that happened long ago." "We've been watching a ceremony... commanded by the Chief of this clan." "He's a Inhaca and therefore a founder of this territory." "This is a moment in the lives of these people." "There's a tendency for those who see these people... from the outside, of looking at them in these moments... which are then faced as something exotic." "This ceremony is attached to a relationship of these people... with nature and super-nature." "I mean, this border is an artifice." "When we say something is natural," "And the way we transform things that aren't natural into natural." "For example, this way of looking at culture." "Culture today has replaced the notion of race to look at the others." "I have a great esteem for my marriage... and this is the room where I decided to keep my beautiful wedding dress." "Everyday I come in, I feel the same emotion... as if it were yesterday." "I like her so much that I think this will get... to a Golden Wedding." "If I look at myself, it doesn't even seem I am a Muslim." "In my, our religion, there are no such things... as strips on your hair and stuff." "It's something straight and direct." "I practice the religion, not only because..." "I'm a Muslim, but because I was born this way." "I go to the Mosque, I pray." "When I think, before I sleep, I pray." "Before a meal, at work, I have to pray." "In the Cuhran it's written that woman has to be behind the man." "What is taught is:" "To last more, a woman should serve her man, but never adore him as much as she adores Allah." "A man, a male, would never put on pink trousers." "For me, it's great to wear pink trousers!" " I think it looks nice." " I was supposed to be born a girl... and something went wrong and I was born a man." " Thank goodness you're a boy!" " With a somewhat feminine thought." "We like clothes and fashion but in a way which... is not to follow trends." "To dress like others?" "I don't follow fashion." "I create my own style so others can't follow." "When a new Diesel Jeans is released it's trendy, you buy it." "A new Jean Paul, it's trendy, you buy it." "Tomorrow there's a new Versace." "Your pocket is empty and... you don't want to go out anymore." "Why?" "Because you think you are not in fashion." "So when people never see you in fashion, it's always good." "Tokyo, Lupongi." "As you say, nightlife in Tokyo." "It's the place that stays open 24 h in Tokyo." "The quality of life is good." "The food, security." "The bad thing is... the Japanese don't go along very well with foreigners." "The beginning was very strange, a new place, a new life for me." "It was a new environment, now I got used to it, it's cool." "I feel Brazilian and Japanese now." "Because my parents are Japanese..." "I was brought up like a Japanese at home." "But my daily life was with Brazilians." "So I have a Japanese education at home... and a Brazilian education out of home." "I only speak Japanese when I'm with the Japanese." "But usually, I think more in Portuguese." "Beautiful ball!" "I came alone." "I wanted to come alone to Japan." "To work as a Japanese cook." "I work with Naoki doing Brazilian barbecue at the same club." "Acarajé." "I have this dream of being a father... since I've been married for 2 years now." "The first thing the baby will say is "papal, mamãe ou mama"." "I guess it'll be difficult to hear him say otosa, okasan." "To speak Portuguese is to remember your homeland." "I believe that's the most important thing." "To not forget your own language." "When you're a Brazilian you can't deny it." "It's the Brazilian race, it's in your blood." "When you're with Brazilians, you're a Brazilian for good." "My dream here in Japan is to save money and go to Brazil, right?" "Hey man!" "You're a capitalist!" "No." "A patriot!" "See ya!" "At night we hear secrets." "At night we hear everything." "To understand Bairro Alto easier... we have to remember different stages of it." "I used to meet Cocas and Jardel... to drink champagne at Arroz Doce." "At Tia Alice." "And I'd never heard Tia Alice singing the Fado." "This fat lady, behind the counter!" "Sitting on a bench, at the cash machine with her clients and friends." "Then, one night I went in and she was singing the Fado." "And she said such beautiful things!" "Things about which many people can't speak." "Defeated souls Lost nights" "Blzarre shadows" "In Mourarla" "Bohemlans sing, guitars cry" "Love and jealousy" "Ashes and fire" "Paln and sin" "All of this exists" "All of this Is sad" "All of this Is Fado" "Love and jealousy" "Ashes and fire" "Paln and sin" "All of this exists" "All of this Is sad" "All of this Is Fado" "I'm on my way to Bukisso." "DE-MINIG SITE" "This program absorbed... ex-military men from both sides." "A "sapador" is... the front line of this whole process." "Centimeter by centimeter, meter by meter... it is him who unveils the jungle." "I have my detector, which helps me in my de-mining works." "I trust this detector so much... it seems like my wife to me." "It never let me down, so whoever works with it... works with confidence." "I have to be calm and concentrated with no distraction... or resentments and always joyful." "I heard there were wars, there were mines... many other things around." "For fun I looked up in the oracle if I could follow a career of arms." "When I did so, the oracle answered me I was born to live in danger." "The military life would prepare me for war." ""Testimony of the 0Id Assembly of God Church... whose leader is Reverend Márcio." "This above-quoted church was a simple shack." "Miserable in appearance." "Nevertheless it was leaning... in such a way that it became frightening."" "Preaching inside the church, is easy." "Preaching outside the temple is the hard thing." "So whenever I am spreading the word of God in buses or trains, or wherever God orders me to... the power of God acts in my life in such a powerful way." "I don't even worry about what is going on around me." "I get hit and don't care." "I become totally possessed by God." ""Who is that one?" "You asked." "Whom without knowledge covers the advice." "Certainly speaking of things he did not understand." "Things too marvelous for me."" "God used people promising... to raise this Temple someday." "And time went by and hope kept growing in my heart." "Knowing that God is not a man to lie and neither son of a man to regret." "By no means would God say something and not accomplish it." "Nor speak something and not confirm it." "My fatherwas a "colonlzer" a very good farmer..." "Sang "Calango" all night long not missing a single verse." "Mother Teresa was a "prayer" and prayed a lot for me..." "I was born in a farm and the music says my father is a "colonizer"." "In the Portuguese language from Portugal "colono" is the colonizer." "But in the countryside of Rio "colonizer"" "is the one who works on the ground." "And I was born here but went to Rio very young... to live there." "So, when I got famous I said I was born in Duas Barras." "Then the city made a big party to receive me." "And I was brought to the house where I was born." "Luckily the house was for sale." "An even more luckily it was a possible price to pay." "So I bought the house and now I live here... and in many places." "Rio, here, all around, the world!" "This was a coffee region at a time." "The farmers ended the coffee plantations... and transformed it all in cattle hazing ground." "This was when we had the exodus of people leaving... the field for the big cities... and my family moved in that flow." "I was four and my father left... to live in a "Favela" (slum)... called Hill of the Free Blacks." "So, a community was formed and I grew up... hearing stories of Duas Barras." "I left when I was four and came back when I was thirty... but it wasn't like arriving in a strange place." "It was intimate to me, because what makes memory are words, the family talks." "The mouth-to mouth culture." "Iwanted to date the black girl, but big black man wouldn't allow" "If had to be a blonde fellow to date her lwanted to date the blonde girl, but Mr. Blonde wouldn't allow" "If had to be a dark fellow so they could mlsclgenate" "I have no consolation And no one to consulate me" "I keep singing my Calango for life to get better" "My Calango for life to get better" "And my only joy Is to watch my Vasco play" "Where is the sun?" "Is behind the hill." "Now point Isabel." "Will the sun appear once again tomorrow?" "Yes." "The sun will appear once again tomorrow." "Where?" "The territory all over is accusing something." "You always have to consider it's a mine." "When I arrived at this program my first shock was... when I filled the forms." "The first question was in case of injury... whom is to be contacted?" "The second:" "In case of death who will receive the benefits?" "And then the third:" "What's your name?" "I push this white ruler a little... and begin my excavation." "We had different types of war in this country." "First we had the colonial war." "Then the war... against Rhodesia and lan Smith." "And then a war between us brothers, Mozambicans." "I was able to fight in the war, but that's a thing from the past." "I don't want to talk about it anymore." "I just want to live free..." "When we got here, there was nothing." "There were buildings, there were stones... but there was no life." "This is a bullet, ok?" "We're over the landmine." "We're over the bullet." "The sound is the same." "As you saw they have found 120 mines... and 9900 pieces of metal." "This mine is known as the PMD6." "It's the cheapest mine in the world." "It costs 20 cents of a dollar." "You need 2,5kg of pressure to activate it." "Danger!" "Danger!" "Fire!" "The first time I came to Rio was in 1986." "I was very happy and brought the Lusiadas classical poem." "And it didn't make much sense to read the Lusiadas here." "Look at me In the eyes" "Of the sea" "Look at me with" "Youreyes" "Come with the sensation" "That we're gonna trip" "Only the two of us" "In the Illusion of loving" "The main theme for this group... would be the umbrella of saudade - (nostalgia)." "So I wanted to create a choreography of waiting." "We Portuguese like to recognize ourselves... in the Brazilians and vice-versa." "When we like each other and that is common." "But I can't say there is a total identification... because they're very diverse cultures." "Brazil is an enormous, multicultural country." "With different traditions from North to South." "Portugal is also that way but it's much smaller." "But between Brazil and Portugal..." "That is what connets us also." "To speak the same language." "But it's not spoken the same way... and we feel that when we communicate." "This wish for approaching... and the distance between the two ways of being." "Portugal was founded by a son revolted against his mother." "Afterwards, Brazil gained its independence... through a son revolted against his father." "Here you find the description of how the..." "Portuguese found a bigger Portugal in Brazil." "Here they could do what they weren't allowed to in Portugal." "And construct a practically impossible civilization!" "Today is Saturday, it's 11 o'clock, and I'm going to a bar to meet my bar friends." "This is a ritual I follow every weekend." " The beer is good." " No." "I'm having a guaraná soft drink." "They invited me to go to the Congress." "I'm not going!" "To speak about the national language." "I'm not a Philologist!" "I'm not a Linguistic, I'm no scholar in the matter." "I'm only a user of this language." "Which in the future tends to be called the Brazilian language... is evolving a lot." "And it has become a language... that may be considered very diverse... from a so called Portuguese pattern." "Cocada, bolo de aipim, cuscuz..." "I consider the boteco (pub) From Rio the richest of its similars... in Brazil or abroad." "I get very inspired by this bar... because I live very isolated." "Locked at home." "Much of my contact with the world is through these people." "That's how I learn the way normal people live." "Oh, I am here, standing still In thls lost city" "Grande Hotel lwanted to sing Mozamblque and the Mozamblcan people" "I was introduced to Rap through American rap singers." "That crowd:" "Tupac, Will Smith." "I have raps that speak about my poverty." "I want to get out of this poverty!" "I want a better life." "What can I do to make it?" "I make raps because I feel the suffering of my city." "So, I would like to live in the USA." "As far as I can see, life is easier over there... even though there are a lot of thieves." "0n Sunday nights, they've put parabolic aerials... and they "catch" channels." "I bid my time and I watch New York," "California, yeah!" "A long time ago, before my era... we, black people did not go into this building." "0nly whites would do it." "Hilaria and Alice, see you around." "I'm sure clients will come." "Bye." "0ne kiss for you." "He's my intimate friend and we've been playing since childhood." "We formed our music group and we're together to this day." "Dinho taught me how to sing and dance." "At school when I didn't know something, he would teach me." "A girl showed up pregnant and I asked my brother:" "Where does this girl come from?" "He said:" "She's Dinho's girlfriend." "I said:" "This girl is pregnant." "Is it from Dinho?" "Marcela is fine... but she's been pregnant... for 7 months now." "My head is in the air." "I don't know what to do..." "The months are getting closer." "I have this irresponsibility to assume." "As far as I can see, all that I had to climb... will fall a little over the next year or two." "This has been good and bad." "Good because I'll have the fruit." "Bad because I don't have what to give to this fruit." "I planted a tree, but I can't water it." "0ur Father who art in heaven." "Holy be thy name." "Thy Kingdom will come in Earth and Sky." "Give us today our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses... as we forgive them that trespass against us." "Lead us not into Temptation, but deliver us from evil." "Amen." "Father, Son and The Holly Spirit be with us." "Amen." "There's no distinction." "Any church is welcome in this house." "There are no Catholics, Muslims..." "It unites all peoples!" "Because after all we are serving God!" "Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost!" "If we divide, then we divide Jesus Christ in pieces." "This Zion religion was brought from a region... where the language was Tsuah." "They prayed in Tsuah or Xope." "As times walked by, Xangana began to be used." "We now use Xangana, sometimes Ronga." "Sometimes we use Portuguese." "I don't work on only for the Zion Christian Union Church of Mozambique." "I work for every... living man." "I pray for every living being." "That's why I'm a very busy woman." "Now I'm going to the so-called Diaspora." "Which is a friend of ours, who happens to be Jewish, and had a fight with the table." "But since he's a close friend of mine..." "I go to the other bar where he gives shift now." "In Rio de Janeiro it was common for the Portuguese... to arrive as poor people and work like beasts of burden." "They're known as hard workers." "They saved their money and invested it in a pub or a cab." "Sometimes, the guy isn't even Portuguese... and he is known as "the Portuguese from the pub"." "I was born in Beira Alta, went to Porto when I was two." "After the army I came over here." "People meet in the bar and start talking." "In Portugal, it's not like that, you only talk to whom you know." "0ver here, you have... a beer and you get to socialize with everyone straight away." "That's the way it goes." "We have a plurality of cultures... and sub-cultures that Portugal doesn't have." "Because of our size and because of our History." "We were colonized by Portugal, but received vast numbers of peoples from other origins." "We're importing not only... the vocabulary but also the American syntax." "The American way of thinking, of reasoning, and that is very serious." "Nowadays you find the future tense in Brazilian youth." "As if our future were compound." "I am going to go out." "I will go out." "But I will to go out is a bit too much." "We're going to go to the party afterwards, but first we'll go to go to the cinema." "...even that is becoming a compound tense in Brazilian Portuguese." "But the unquestionable truth is that if languages didn't change..." "We would all be speaking Latin to this day." "D like to praise In good Tupy (Indian) The beauties of my country" "Which would be language we should speak." "The language of Brazil." "The same way you have the Mozambican languages, the "crioulo" from Guinea, Sao Tomé and Cabo Verde." "The kimbundos and umbundos and kicongos from Angola." "My great grand motherwas very clean and pure from Angola" "My great grand fatherwas also clean and pure from Mozamblque" "I am neitherwhite nor black and my owner Is a brunette" "And I have a lot of little coloured "mulatos"" "Long live the Brazlllan (coloured) "mulatada"!" "Long live the Brazlllan (coloured) "mulatada"!" "USA, New York, Miami, those places can be found anywhere." "That is, you travel to the same place." "You don't have to go there to see it, they're all over." "Here, and in Europe." "Now, if someone travels to Cabo Verde which is a rich, archipelago." "With a fantastic culture, extraordinary beauty!" "Then you travel to a different place." "Luanda Is beautiful, oh Vanlna Also Cablnda, oh Vanlna" "And then In Dlll, East Timor You shall be welcome orwell gone" "Maputo Is fine, oh Vanlna And Petrollna, oh Vanlna" "The Portuguese gave us good architecture, good music... good food, good drinks, but there were no industries." "Names were changed," "Panringle was changed to Pedro." "Krishna became Jesus." "Even the Christians here have faith in... re-birth." "Re-incarnation." "We still use the Portuguese influence." "Me and old people from my generation." "We continue to consider ourselves Portuguese." "Portuguese was left like a hot bowl." "We had less than a year to change." "Everything immediately turned from Portuguese into English." "Also we eat with forks and Indians find it strange." "Like we do when we see Chinese eating with sticks..." "They think we're not from India, we're from somewhere else." "And later, we... met the Mahrata literature, and the English literature." "The Freedom Movement spread through India." "We realize that... we are not Portuguese, we are Hindus." "And there was, naturally, a movement." "Not against the Portuguese, but against the Portuguese domination." "This Miramar Beach, Gaspar Dias." "We usually come here to spend our time." "When we spoke Portuguese we used to be despised." "But now with this new relationship." "Portuguese has been given value again." "And we're educating the others." "We were educated in Portuguese... and taught that Portugal... was our homeland." "There was a line in the school books." "I am Portuguese because the air that I breathe is Portuguese." "I am Portuguese because the blood that runs in my veins is Portuguese... and the water I drink is Portuguese." "And we also had to learn this song:" "Parrot sing and scream, sing royal parrot." "This land, beautiful land, is a daughter of Portugal." "Blonde parrot, with a golden beak" "Take this letterto my boyfriend" "He's not a priest and neither a married man" "He's a single boy as beautiful as the clover" "As beautiful as the clover As beautiful as the rose" "All people live with a lot of disappointments trying to forget things." "I think life is too short." "You can't forget anything." "Youreyes are stained glasses" "That change colourwith the sky" "And when they smile equally" "When they smile equally" "The one who changes colours Is me" "There is an existential freedom that... crosses this whole Portuguese-speaking community." "In the sense that it is always exposed to joy and sadness." "Not even dawn calms me down" "In the anxiety to have you here" "And In your perfume an Incense the echoes of a prayer" "Mlx In our lmmensity" "Drown In solitude" "The hurt of love in our society is something the individual tolerates." "And then we reach this extraordinary key... to life: "saudade"." "This authorization we give ourselves to be sad when we have reasons for it." "I don't know If a fado song will forgive me" "I don't know If I can, at last" "Forget, one day, that youreyes smile" "But not for me" "I sometimes have this sensation that I carry a kind of intuition." "And I don't know where it came from." "Sometimes, I... of course all of that may be illusion." "Because everything may have a very logical, very clear and very objective explanation." "Then you can do it this way." "Tabulation is this way." "To paste is this way." "This is escape." "It really looks like an escape." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "I play in this hotel from Monday to Friday." "During the day I work in my farm, stay close to nature and all's well that way." "That's nice, ls only getting Into the mood and free it all" "Not bad!" "Feellng the SambaWorld Isn't bad at all" "That's nice, ls only getting Into the mood and free it all" "This is a Brazilian bar and restaurant, located in Tokyo." "You find many Brazilians here but also... many Japanese and American." "Swlng, swing, foryou and me" "Feel In the body a reason" "In the Samba lwant to stay" "I'm from São Paulo, from Liberdade." "Life in Japan is very agitated so you have to follow life here in Japan." "It's complicated, unlike Brazil where you always find a party atmosphere." "Joy." "So we miss Brazil." "Viva Carnaval!" "Hello Bosco!" "How are you?" "Viva Carnaval!" "Nowadays I have travelled over all continents." "But the countries were I like to transit..." "I don't know if it is the strength of the Language... are the countries of lusophony." "I see an identity amongst all of them." "In the musical taste, in the food, in the literary taste." "I would easily live in Mozambique, Maputo, in Luanda." "0r in Salt Island... 0r in Lisbon..." "So there's this thing the Portuguese language has done:" "It kept the countries distant, they stayed a long time... with practically no communication." "This connection is very recent." "Now the mystery is how everything remained." "Here, we find an almost faint notion of Time." "A circular time." "A time which we can't even attempt to control." "There is no word for future." "The future is a sacred ground which we are not allowed to enter." "0f course there is an idea of future, but it can't be nominated." "Neither can it be manipulated." "Different countries, including Mozambique... need to travel, to meet one another... to make exchanges... and this is a kind of living spectacle which is present." "In my literary work, this presence of travel is fundamental." "In almost every book, a path is taken in the background." "You don't travel geographically, but you travel through people." "What will be of me?" "Oh mommy?" "What will be of me?" "Lwanted to sing for good Everythlng's fine this way" "What will be of me?" "All of this will end" "All this joy, all this richness" "All this nature from my head will leak and leave" "Everythlng Is fine I talk via Internet to Brazll" "I need to have this answer What will be of me?" "0h, come My Father to comfort... those who are annoyed!" "Come!" "To strengthen the weak!" "0h Father come and multiply Bread and olive oil... for those who are finishing." "In name of Jesus!" "Amen!" "Abandon this sea where you may sink!" "Abandon this world of horror!" "Oh my friend hear soon!" "Thls voice will save you or accept Jesus, the Savlor!" "Abandon!" "Now!" "At once!" "Society is not prepared to see some of the things... we do and they take us for crazy." "And we like our madness!" "The idea is to educate the civil society that it has to be this way." "This is how we move forward." "We're in Africa but in Africa there is..." " Life." " There is Life!" "We're here to have fun." "Since we couldn't find a post we are using our own tapes." "After, we'll take them off to use on the field." "0n the de-mining field I mean." "We'll win." "Victory is ours." "It's our field, we cleaned it and de-mined it." "So we have to win." "It'll be a tough match because we haven't run for some time." "And we don't play together often." "But we'll try our best." "This is no life!" "The grounds are all to make buildings, and we have to starve with nothing to eat." "Things come from all over... when we used to have plenty of everything." "We didn't miss anything." "What point have we reached?" "You right, it's true!" "We have reached the end of the line." "There's no more line." "It happens sometimes, I don't know if today." "That when the sun sets, or when it disappears, the wind, and here there is little wind, stops." "I cannot explain why this happens, but it does sometimes." "0r maybe is by chance, perhaps." "I could say that there is not a Portuguese language, but languages in Portuguese." "It is a language that, inevitably, had to go through changes." "According to places, regarding the speech, the cultures and influences." "But this absolutely does not take away the evidence... that it is the body of the Portuguese language." "It is a body scattered throughout the world." "You wait there for me!" "Wait there!" "Auntie!" "Auntie!" "Auntie!" "Auntie!" "The day is over and now it is night." "Now point Isabel." "Will the sun appear once again tomorrow?" "Yes." "The sun will appear once again tomorrow." "Look at the moon and the stars." "It's so beautiful."