My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
Poppy Z. BriteIn high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.
Poppy Z. Brite