Cherrie L. Moraga Quotes & Sayings

We are challenging white feminists to be accountable for their racism because at the base we still want to believe that they really want freedom for all of us. — Cherrie L. Moraga

I am what I am and you can't take it away with all the words and sneers at your command. — Cherrie L. Moraga

When entering a room full of soldiers who fear hearts
you put your heart in your back pocket. — Cherrie L. 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 L. Moraga

Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage.
Naomi Littlebear — Cherrie L. Moraga

The very act of writing then, conjuring/coming to 'see', what has yet to be recorded in history is to bring into consciousness what only the body knows to be true. The body - that site which houses the intuitive, the unspoken, the viscera of our being - this is the revolutionary promise of "theory in the flesh — Cherrie L. 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, 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 L. Moraga