Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain. Dorothy Allison More Quotes by Dorothy Allison More Quotes From 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. Dorothy Allison muscles magic belief 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. Dorothy Allison struggle love-is sex 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. Dorothy Allison mother dream food I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain. Dorothy Allison creating secret character And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen to Steve Earle, Mary J. Blige, and k.d. lang. We devour paperback novels and tell evil mean stories, value stubbornness above patience and a sense of humor more than a college education. We claim our heritage with a full appreciation of how often it has been disdained. And let me promise you, you do not want to make us angry. Dorothy Allison appreciation mean children 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. Dorothy Allison crazy believe children I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253) Dorothy Allison shame suicide rivers The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around. Dorothy Allison body writing people I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself in Daddy Glen's eyes, I wanted to die. No, I wanted to be already dead, cold and gone. Everything felt hopeless. He looked at me and I was ashamed of myself. It was like sliding down an endless hole, seeing myself at the bottom, dirty, ragged, poor, stupid. Dorothy Allison girl stupid dirty 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) Dorothy Allison mama scared said 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. Dorothy Allison eye blessing long I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine. Dorothy Allison determination decision class It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do - which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human. Dorothy Allison writing people ideas Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been. Dorothy Allison doors baby I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted. Dorothy Allison warrior turtles heart Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear. Dorothy Allison behinds stories wish When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. Dorothy Allison sister growing-up book Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure Dorothy Allison different knowing two I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them. Dorothy Allison responsibility love-you character Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe. Dorothy Allison demand justice writing
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