Cherrie Moraga Quotes
- Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.
- 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…
- 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…
- When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
- Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
- In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
- The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth
- 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 grain…
- The revolution begins at home.
- Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
- 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…