"The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice……" — Dorothy Allison
"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."
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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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