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

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Source : Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

Cherrie Moraga

#Heart Quotes #Doe Quotes #Oppression Quotes

“You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun.”
“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.”
“My government currently runs things only because the people 'allow' them to run things. It is my responsibility that I do everything I can to keep tabs on my government, keep them honest and make sure that they always act for the good of the people. They must be reminded that they hold no power over the people that the people do not wish for them to hold. If the government begins working in a way that the people don't agree with, they must be made to know that we will rip it to its very foundations and replace it with something that does.”
“Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.”
“Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.”
“Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn
“There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language.”
“Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night.”

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