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 AllisonTwo or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.
Dorothy Allisonshe got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant
Dorothy AllisonI was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.
Dorothy Allison