"The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth"

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Source : Cherríe Moraga, Irma Mayorga (2001). “The Hungry Woman”

Cherrie Moraga

#Female Quotes #Body Quotes #Earth Quotes

“We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the state health authorities. ... you get people, you identify them, and you observe and monitor them daily to determine if they develop symptoms If they do, then you put them under isolation to determine if, in fact, they are infected. And if you do that properly, you can shut down any outbreak.”
“We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.”
“I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.”
“In New York the other day, there was a pro-Martha Stewart rally. Only four people showed up ... and three of them were made out of crepe paper!”
“My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.”
“I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.”
“The information we need is not available. The information we want is not what we need. The information we have is not what we want.”
“Everything is dead while it lives.”

Source : Erwin Mitsch, Egon Schiele (1988). “The art of Egon Schiele”

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