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> [Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/oppression-does-not-make-for-hearts-as-big-as-all-outdoors-oppression/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cherrie-moraga/)

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## More by Cherrie Moraga

> [Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/spirituality-which-inspires-activism-and-similarly-politics-which/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cherrie-moraga/)

> [The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/the-nationalism-i-seek-is-one-that-decolonizes-the-brown-and-female/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cherrie-moraga/)

> [Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/smell-remembers-and-tells-the-future-smell-is-home-or-loneliness/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cherrie-moraga/)

> [The revolution begins at home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/the-revolution-begins-at-home/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cherrie-moraga/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/fundamentally-i-started-writing-to-save-my-life-yes-my-own-life-first/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cherrie-moraga/)

> [The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/the-passage-is-through-not-over-not-by-not-around-but-through/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/sometimes-a-breakdown-can-be-the-beginning-of-a-kind-of-breakthrough/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cherrie-moraga/)

> [To assess the damage is a dangerous act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/to-assess-the-damage-is-a-dangerous-act/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cherrie-moraga/)

> [we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/we-have-let-rhetoric-do-the-job-of-poetry/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cherrie-moraga/)

> [In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/in-1984-i-turned-to-theater-in-the-hopes-of-finding-a-more-direct/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cherrie-moraga/)

> [But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/but-it-is-not-really-difference-the-oppressor-fears-so-much-as/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/oppression-does-not-make-for-hearts-as-big-as-all-outdoors-oppression/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/a-writer-will-write-with-or-without-a-movement-but-at-the-same-time/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cherrie-moraga/)

> [Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/third-world-feminism-is-about-feeding-people-in-all-their-hungers/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherrie-moraga/our-strategy-is-how-we-cope-how-we-measure-and-weigh-what-is-to-be/)

[Cherrie Moraga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cherrie-moraga/)

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