Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of b… - Dorothy Allison
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of b…
- Dorothy Allison
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. - Dorothy Allison
Why write stories? To join the conversation. - Dorothy Allison
Why write stories? To join the conversation.
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities de… - 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 de…
Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked f… - Dorothy Allison
Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked f…
I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understo… - Dorothy Allison
I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understo…
Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go on living I have to tell stories, that stories are the… - Dorothy Allison
Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go on living I have to tell stories, that stories are the…
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. - Dorothy Allison
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing. - Dorothy Allison
The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.
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