Top 38 Moraga Quotes
#1. Moraga's expedition of 1806 added further to the nomenclature of the Sierra. After crossing the San Joaquin his party came to a place which his men called Las Mariposas because of the swarms of butterflies (mariposas) which flew into their eyes and ears.
Francis P. Farquhar
#2. The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
Raymond Chandler
#3. I am what I am and you can't take it away with all the words and sneers at your command.
Cherrie L. Moraga
#4. Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
Talib Kweli
#5. 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
#7. Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage.
Naomi Littlebear
Cherrie L. Moraga
#8. I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity
George III
#9. 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.
Cherrie L. Moraga
#11. I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.
Marcus Allen
#12. For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.
Nigel Dennis
#13. At high school they expect answers, but at university all you're supposed to do is dispute the wording of the question.
Eleanor Catton
#14. Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.
Cherrie Moraga
#15. 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
#16. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
John Lydon
#17. But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.
Cherrie Moraga
#18. There's no reason in the world why black [people] should not be regarded as an attribute that is not degrading but is positive. There's no reason in the world why any person should think that white is degrading.
John Hope Franklin
#19. 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.
Cherrie Moraga
#20. The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth
Cherrie Moraga
#21. In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
Cherrie Moraga
#22. Smell remembers and tells the future ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.
Cherrie Moraga
#23. When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
Cherrie Moraga
#24. 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.
Cherrie Moraga
#26. The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
Oscar Wilde
#27. My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation.
Jackie Kay
#28. I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it ... I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians, Socialists, homosexuals, Asians, or British.
Herbert
#29. If you have to choose between character and reputation. Choose character every single time. Then you can be authentic and straight. Nothing to lose.
Parashar Pandya
#30. The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.
Cherrie Moraga
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. When entering a room full of soldiers who fear hearts
you put your heart in your back pocket.
Cherrie L. Moraga
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