Quotes by Cherrie Moraga - Page 1

The revolution begins at home.
Cherrie Moraga / Writer
Home
Feminism
Revolution
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To assess the damage is a dangerous act.
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Damage
Dangerous
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we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.
Cherrie Moraga / Writer
Jobs
Poetry
Rhetoric
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The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.
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Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.
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Feminism
People
World
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But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.
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Differences
Oppression
Similarity
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When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
Cherrie Moraga / Writer
Emotional
Luxury
Psychics
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Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.
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Home
Betrayal
Loneliness
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In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
Cherrie Moraga / Writer
Communication
Direct
Form
People
Me People More
Communication Me People
Finding
Hopes
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The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth
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Body
Earth
Female
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I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.
Cherrie Moraga / Writer
Feet
Splits
World
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Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
Cherrie Moraga / Writer
Leadership
Remember You
Responsibility
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Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
Cherrie Moraga / Writer
Doe
Expressive
Heart
Oppression
Hearts
Outdoors
Silenced
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The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
Cherrie Moraga / Writer
Believe
People
Political
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Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
Cherrie Moraga / Writer
Break Through
Kind
Way
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Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.
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Giving
Inspire
Moving
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I am the daughter of a Chicana and anglo. I think most days I am an embarrassment to both groups. I sometimes hate the white in me so viciously that I long to forget the commitment my skin has imposed upon my life.
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Daughter
Embarrassment
Groups
Skin
Imposed
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A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.
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Notebook
Gay
Secret Places
Writing
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Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom and towhom and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.
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Diversity
Sex
Skins
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