Cherrie Moraga Quotes
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
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The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet.
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I bring to the table core Democratic values and can articulate them very strongly. I'm not someone who tries to claim the middle.
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I struggled with depression when I was in high school, and I remember thinking that if I got a record deal and got a hit song, that it would solve all those problems for me.
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Mouths talk without authority sometimes.
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We have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.
