Quotes from Cherrie Moraga

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

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.

The revolution begins at home.

Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

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.

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

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.