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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

“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.”

Cherríe Moraga

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

“I think: what is my responsibility to my roots-both white and brown, Spanish-speaking and English? I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently”

Cherríe Moraga

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

“Time and time again, I have observed that the usual response among white women's groups when the "racism issue" comes up is to deny the difference. I have heard comments like, "Well, we're open to all women; why don't they (women of color) come? You can only do so much..."”

Cherríe Moraga

But there is seldom any analysis of how the very nature and structure of the group itself may be founded on racist or classist assumptions. More important, so often the women seem to feel no loss, no lack, no absence when women of color are not involved; therefore, there is little desire to change the situation. This has hurt me deeply. I have come to believe that the only reason women of a privileged class will dare to look at how it is that they oppress, is when they've come to know the meaning of their own oppression. And understand that the oppression of others hurts them personally.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

“My deepest sense of myself has not quite "caught up" with my "woman-identified" politics.”

Cherríe Moraga

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

“My real politicization began, not through the Chicano Movement but through the bold recognition of my lesbianism.”

Cherríe Moraga

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

“To change the world, we have to change ourselves-even sometimes out most cherished, block-hard convictions. I must confess I hate the thought of this. Change don't come easy. For anyone. But this state of war we live in, this world on fire, provides us with no other choice.”

Cherríe Moraga

1983
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

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

Cherríe Moraga

1983
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)