A Question of Class by Dorothy Allison

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal. It is a belief that dominates this culture. It is what makes the poor whit... See more

The only way I found to resist that homogenized view of the world was to make myself part of something larger than myself.