"I need you to do more than survive.……" — Dorothy Allison
"I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them."
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Dorothy Allison
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70 Quotes by Dorothy Allison
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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated…
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was…
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat…
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Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical…
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Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.
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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be…
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Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex…
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It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little…
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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that…
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More Blockades Quotes
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A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and…
— Lester Roloff
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We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
— Alexander Eliot
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Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those…
— Abba Eban
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A real friend does not pick up the bill for an addict’s drugs: he packs the friend off to rehab…
— Gideon Levy
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Germany is the enemy of Judaism and must be pursued with deadly hatred. The goal of Judaism of today is:…
— Unknown Author
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War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the…
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
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The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan.…
— William D. Leahy
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I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik…
— Victor Serge
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A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and…
— Lester Roloff
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You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against…
— Curtis LeMay
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First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move…
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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