Cherrie Moraga Quotes

#1. Smell remembers and tells the future ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

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#2. When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

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#3. 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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#4. To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

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#5. In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

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#6. The revolution begins at home.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

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#9. Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

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#10. The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

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#11. 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.

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#12. We have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

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#13. Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.

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#14. 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.

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#15. But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

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#16. 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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#17. 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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