Cherrie Moraga Quotes

#1. Prayer consists in the transformation of what we do in the name of Jesus to what Holy Spirit does in us as we follow Jesus.

Eugene H. Peterson

#2. 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

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

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#4. I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

Rachel Stevens

#5. Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage.
Naomi Littlebear

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#6. Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

Lewis Thomas

#7. I definitely have been foolish.

Sienna Miller

#8. We are challenging white feminists to be accountable for their racism because at the base we still want to believe that they really want freedom for all of us.

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#9. If that's the case.. Go deeper. To a world darker than black, brighter than white ... Embrace it.

Katsura Hoshino

#10. I am what I am and you can't take it away with all the words and sneers at your command.

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#11. If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.

Terrence J

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

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

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#15. 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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#16. One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'

Gerald Chertavian

#17. You woke me back up, Libby. You have to know that.

Kristen Callihan

#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

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#21. Water stains like liver spots dotted the floors, ceiling, and walls while the smell of warm wood rot hung in the air thick like an old whore's perfume.

Matt Abraham

#22. Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please.
Please.
If you're up there.
Somewhere.

Malorie Blackman

#23. 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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#24. To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

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#25. Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

#26. 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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#27. The revolution begins at home.

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

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#29. 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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#30. It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

David Allan Coe

#31. Of course, there were other sorts of literature
theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical
but they were just dry wanks.

Julian Barnes

#32. 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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#33. I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.

Godfrey

#34. When entering a room full of soldiers who fear hearts
you put your heart in your back pocket.

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

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