Cherrie Moraga
Cherrie Moraga
Cherríe Lawrence Moragais a Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright. She is part of the faculty at Stanford University in the Department of Drama and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Her works explore the ways in which gender, sexuality and race intersect in the lives of women of color...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth25 September 1952
CountryUnited States of America
both days forget hate imposed life skin white
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.
communication people theater
In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
damage dangerous
To assess the damage is a dangerous act.
jobs poetry rhetoric
we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.
people feminism world
Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.
betrayal loneliness home
Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.
home feminism revolution
The revolution begins at home.
sex diversity skins
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, and to whom and towhom and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.
heart doe oppression
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
believe people political
The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
moving giving inspire
Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.
passages
The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.
emotional psychics luxury
When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
body earth female
The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth