It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.
Dorothy Allisonmy life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.
Dorothy Allison