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Quotes from This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color — Cherríe Moraga

born 1952 United States

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

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)

I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it.

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)

What the oppressor often succeeds in doing is simply externalizing his fears, projecting them into the bodies of women, Asians, gays, disabled folks, whoever seems most "other."

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)

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 (1981)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cherríe Moraga (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.