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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.

~Cherrie Moraga

Topics: Am Both Commitment Daughter Days Embarrassment Forget Groups Hate Imposed Life Long Me Most My Life Skin Sometimes Think White I Think I Am

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Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

~Cherrie Moraga

Topics: Big Dead Deep Does Expressive Hearts Make Makes Oppression Outdoors Silenced Small Us

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

~Cherrie Moraga

Topics: Between Communication Direct Finding Form Hopes Me More People Theater Turned

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: September 25th, 1952

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