"Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside."

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Source : Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media

Dorothy Allison

#Race Quotes #Class Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.”
“Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date.”

Source : Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.308, David R. Godine Publisher
“Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll stay with the show.”
“I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life.”
“I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.”
“Is there anybody hiding there in the dark?”

Source : "Fictional character: Clouseau". "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", www.imdb.com. 1976.
“Botvinnik was a killer in chess.”
“There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.”

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