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Cherrie Moraga quotes

American Activist September 25, 1952

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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 their own silence, invisibility, and erasure as living, innately expressive human beings. Cherrie Moraga
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 upon my life. Cherrie Moraga
It’s the Poverty. I lack imagination you say No. I lack language. The language to clarify my resistance to the literate. Words are a war to me. They threaten my family. To gain the word to describe the loss I risk losing everything. I may create a monster the word’s length and body swelling up colorful and thrilling looming over my mother, characterized. Her voice in the distance unintelligible illiterate. These are the monster’s words. 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
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 of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere. Cherrie Moraga
Cherrie Moraga quote: "In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more..."
In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people. 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 radical transformation. Cherrie Moraga
Cherrie Moraga quote: "When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to..."
When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation. Cherrie Moraga
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 urgently. Cherrie Moraga
Cherrie Moraga quote: "Don't let the past steal your present."
Don't let the past steal your present. Cherrie Moraga
Cherrie Moraga quote: "I am what I am and you can't take it away with all the words..."
I am what I am and you can't take it away with all the words and sneers at your command. Cherrie Moraga

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