Frasi di Cherríe L. Moraga

Cherríe Moraga è un'attivista, scrittrice e drammaturga statunitense.

Fa parte della facoltà di lingua inglese presso l'Università della California, Santa Barbara. Moraga è anche un membro fondatore del gruppo di attivisti per la giustizia sociale La Red Chicana Indígena, un'organizzazione di chicani che si batte per l'istruzione, i diritti della cultura e i diritti degli indigeni. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Settembre 1952
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Cherríe L. Moraga: Frasi in inglese

“Silence is like starvation.”

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

“Time and time again, I have observed that the usual response among white women's groups when the "racism issue" comes up is to deny the difference. I have heard comments like, "Well, we're open to all women; why don't they (women of color) come? You can only do so much..."”

But there is seldom any analysis of how the very nature and structure of the group itself may be founded on racist or classist assumptions. More important, so often the women seem to feel no loss, no lack, no absence when women of color are not involved; therefore, there is little desire to change the situation. This has hurt me deeply. I have come to believe that the only reason women of a privileged class will dare to look at how it is that they oppress, is when they've come to know the meaning of their own oppression. And understand that the oppression of others hurts them personally.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

“My deepest sense of myself has not quite "caught up" with my "woman-identified" politics.”

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

“My real politicization began, not through the Chicano Movement but through the bold recognition of my lesbianism.”

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

“Coming to terms with the suffering of others has never meant looking away from our own.”

1983
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

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