Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
Cherrie MoragaOppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
Cherrie MoragaSpirituality 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.
Cherrie MoragaIn 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
Cherrie MoragaA 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.
Cherrie Moraga