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“Humans are accepting the humiliating condition of consuming the Earth. The orixás, just like indigenous ancestors and those of other traditions, created worlds where we could experience life, sing, and dance. But it seems that the will of capital is to impoverish existence. Capitalism wants a sad and monotonous world where we operate like robots, and we cannot accept that.” ― Ailton Krenak, Futuro Ancestral
“Indigenous children are not educated, but guided. They do not learn to be winners, because for some to win, others must lose. They learn to share the place where they live and what they have to eat. They are given the example of a life where the individual matters less than the collective. That is the indigenous mystery, a legacy passed down from generation to generation. What our children learn from an early age is to place their hearts in rhythm with the Earth.” ― Ailton Krenak, Futuro Ancestral
“Then I ask myself: how can we make the forest exist within us, in our homes, in our backyards? We can spark the emergence of a ‘forest-being’ experience by starting to challenge this sanitized urban order by saying: I will let my backyard grow wild; I want to study its grammar.” ― Ailton Krenak, Futuro Ancestral
“It’s about a group of people with the purpose of conducting a collective investigation. Literacy itself doesn’t necessarily require a classroom. A school is not a building, but a generational experience of exchange that should be enriched and valued, where people who have gone through different things can share knowledge to help children prepare for adult life.” ― Ailton Krenak, Futuro Ancestral
“The concept of florestania (forest-being) was born in a regional context, during a very active period of social struggle by the peoples living in the forest. When Chico Mendes, rubber tappers, and indigenous peoples began to organize, they realized that what they aspired to was not to be confused with citizenship — it would be a new field of rights claims (after all, rights are not preexisting things; they are born from a community’s willingness to anticipate the understanding that something should be considered a right, even if it is not yet recognized as such).” ― Ailton Krenak, Futuro Ancestral
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“The rivers, those beings who have always inhabited the worlds in different forms, are the ones who suggest to me that, if there is a future to be considered, that future is ancestral, because it was already here.” ― Ailton Krenak, Futuro Ancestral