Cherrie Moraga Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
-
I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
-
You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
-
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
-
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
-
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
-
I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
-
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
-
Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
-
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
-
I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
-
If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
-
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
-
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
-
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
-
The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
-
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
-
All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
-
Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.
-
Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.S. Cole and bombed several U.S. embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. We knew who did it, but we didn't go after them. Instead, we beefed up security at our embassies and changed the Navy's rules of engagement. It only served to embolden Al Qaeda.
-
If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.
-
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.
