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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
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Greenville
South Carolina
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Life ain't the movies.
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I have a terrible memory.
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Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning’s a sin, it’s pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I’m fine.
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Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.
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People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.
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Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.
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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
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stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
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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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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence.
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And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.
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I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.
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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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