Life Quote by Dorothy Allison

““Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is what it means to have no loved version of your life but the one you made.””

Dorothy Allison

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“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal. It is a belief that dominates this culture. It is what makes the poor…

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