When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
Cherríe L. MoragaDon't let the past steal your present.
Cherríe L. 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.
Cherríe L. MoragaTag: feminist chicana the-last-generation
Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see the same impulse in my students-the dark, the queer, the mixed-blood, the violated-turning to the written page with a relentless passion, a drive to avenge their own silence, invisibility, and erasure as living, innately expressive human beings.
Cherríe L. MoragaTag: feminist chicana the-last-generation
Mujeres, a no dejar que el peligro del viaje y la inmensidad del territorio nos asuste-- a mirar hacia adelante y a abrir paso en el monte
Cherríe L. MoragaThe 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.
Cherríe L. MoragaTag: transformation
We are challenging white feminists to be accountable for their racism because at the base we still want to believe that they really want freedom for all of us.
Cherríe L. MoragaIt’s the Poverty.
I lack imagination you say
No. I lack language.
The language to clarify
my resistance to the literate.
Words are a war to me.
They threaten my family.
To gain the word
to describe the loss
I risk losing everything.
I may create a monster
the word’s length and body
swelling up colorful and thrilling
looming over my mother, characterized.
Her voice in the distance
unintelligible illiterate.
These are the monster’s words.
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.
Cherríe L. MoragaI 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.
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