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

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

- 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…

- Cherrie Moraga

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

- Cherrie Moraga

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

- 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…

- Cherrie Moraga

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

- 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…

- 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.

- Cherrie Moraga