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
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.
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.
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.
break-through way transformation
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.
feet world splits
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.
leadership responsibility remembers-you
Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
notebook writing gay
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.
body earth female
The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth