Moraga's 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. We have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

Cherrie Moraga

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

Cherrie L. Moraga

#4. Hard work can't be ignored forever.

John Moraga

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

Cherrie Moraga

#6. To be able to scratch the sole of my foot using the big toe of the other foot is nothing short of a miracle.

Marian Keyes

#7. Well, dammit, if that was what it took to find her birth family, she'd bloody well find someone to marry.

Annie Seaton

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

Cherrie L. Moraga

#9. 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

#10. Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself.

Lev Raphael

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

Cherrie L. Moraga

#12. 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

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

Cherrie Moraga

#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.

Cherrie Moraga

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

Cherrie Moraga

#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.

Cherrie Moraga

#17. The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

Cherrie Moraga

#18. 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

#19. My family is the treasure. I thank them heartily but I can't say this seeing them face to face since I'm too shy haha.

Daesung

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. The revolution begins at home.

Cherrie Moraga

#23. I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again.

Alan Ladd

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

Cherrie Moraga

#25. He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

Benedict Of Nursia

#26. If we are not serving Jesus, and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of the world will draw us instead to them! Moreover, the things of the world need not be sinister in order to be diverting and consuming.

Neal A. Maxwell

#27. To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

Cherrie Moraga

#28. 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

#29. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

Marcus Samuelsson

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

Cherrie Moraga

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

Cherrie Moraga

#32. You are in good shape for a dead man.

Mario Stinger

#33. In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.

Adam Smith