My family's lives were not on television, not in books, not even comic books. There was a myth of the poor in this country, but it did not include us, no matter how hard I tried to squeeze us in. There was an idea of the good poor — hard-working, ragged but clean, and intrinsically honorable. I understood that we were the bad poor.


Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature (1994)

Dorothy Allison Quotes

My family's lives were not on television, not in books, not even comic books. There was a myth of the poor in this country, but it did not include...

My family's lives were not on television, not in books, not even comic books. There was a myth of the poor in this country, but it did not include...

My family's lives were not on television, not in books, not even comic books. There was a myth of the poor in this country, but it did not include...

My family's lives were not on television, not in books, not even comic books. There was a myth of the poor in this country, but it did not include...