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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Book by Cherríe L. Moraga · 2 quotes · Women, Feminist Movement, Activism

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“What drew me to politics was my love of women, the agony I felt in observing the straight-jackets of poverty and repression I saw in my own family. But the deepest political tragedy I have experienced is how with such grace, such blind faith, this commitment to women in the feminist movement grew to be exclusive and reactionary. I call my white sisters on this. I have had enough of this. And I am involved in this book because more than anything else I need to feel enlivened again in a movement that can finally, as my friend Amber Hollibaugh states, "ask the right questions and admit to not having all the answers.”

Politics Women Family Poverty Feminist Movement

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“I get angry with those in the women's movement and out of it who deal with class & color as if they defined politics and people.”

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