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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Two
Teenagers
Around
Verse
Verses
Teenager
Legs
Walking
Free

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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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I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
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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 have a terrible memory.
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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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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
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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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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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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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He never said Don't tell your mama. He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)
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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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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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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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