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Cherríe Moraga
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“Loving you is like living in the war years.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“To assess the damage is a dangerous act.”
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“When we are not physically starving, we have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.”
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“In this country, lesbianism is a poverty — as is being brown, as is being a woman, as is being just plain poor. The danger lies in ranking the oppressions.”
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“... we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.”
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“But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.”
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“I must believe / I am not / and will never be / the only / one / who suffers.”
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“Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.”
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“The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.”
Cherríe Moraga, Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, playwright
(1952)