“Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see the same impulse in my students-the dark, the queer, the mixed-blood, the violated-turning to the written page with a relentless passion, a drive to avenge… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
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… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers. — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see the same impulse in my students-the dark, the queer,… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people. — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity. — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
