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.
When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation. - Cherrie Moraga
When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
- Cherrie Moraga
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
Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity. - Cherrie Moraga
But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.
The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth - Cherrie Moraga
The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth
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, da… - Cherrie Moraga
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, da…
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 grai… - Cherrie Moraga
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 grai…
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
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers. - Cherrie Moraga
Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.
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 r… - Cherrie Moraga
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 r…
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