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Background She describes herself as a feminist working class story teller. She is an award winning editor for Quest, COnditions and Outlook. Her recognition was very mainstream until she received recognition for her novel “Bastard Out of California.From that point she was given the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for fiction. The majority of her work was from her imagination. She also gained much respect from her work about Gay and Lesbian Writing. When she first started writing it was about the feminist movement at the time. As she said “ It was like opening your eyes under water. It hurt, but suddenly everything that had been dark and mysterious became visible and open to change.” That was her motto that she lived by everyday and never turned down a chance to prove that quote. Her main goal while writing was to show that just because someone is different that what society “likes” doesn’t mean that they should be treated differently. Born: April 11, 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina. Died: Studied at Florida State University and also Eckerd College. Was awarded Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction.

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Poems The Women Who Hate Me Bastard Out of Carolina. Skin:Talking about Sex, Class and Literature. Songs

**"Yesterday"**

**(feat. Chris Brown)**

//[Chorus - Chris Brown]//

Yesterday I fell in love

Today feels like my funeral

I just got hit by a bus

Should've been so beautiful

Don't know why I gave my heart, gave my trust, gave everything

You think that if I had the chance

To do it over again

I'd do something different

Make better decisions

Save me from my ignorance

But I keep

Making the same mistakes before I

I see the danger but I go forward

I'm sitting here trying to keep my composure

Knowing inside I'm broken and tore up

She got me gone I'm on her like a drug

I try to go but end up wanting more

Stuck in my head vivid as a picture

I wanna be clean but I can't get rid of her

//[Diddy]//

Uh

Give my all you take it from me (from me girl)

And don't even replace it for me (noo)

I wish you just fake it for me (fake it)

I wish I can make you love me more

You can't tell I fucks wit you I needed you (need you)

I thought that you understood that based on how I treated you (treated you)

I don't pay attention to the rumors that you feed into

Know you're missing something I wish I was what completed you

//[Chorus]//

Yesterday I fell in love

Today feels like my funeral

I just got hit by a bus

Should've been so beautiful

Don't know why I gave my heart, gave my trust, gave everything

You think that if I had the chance

To do it over again

I'd do something different

Make better decisions

Save me from my ignorance

But I keep

Making the same mistakes before I

I see the danger but I go forward

I'm sitting here trying to keep my composure

Knowing inside I'm broken and tore up

She got me gone I'm on her like a drug

I try to go but end up wanting more

Stuck in my head vivid as a picture

I wanna be clean but I can't get rid of her

I feel like a killer hit me (hit me)

The weapon was concealed initially (ohh)

But I felt so much pain from it (pain)

You deserved to feel it with me more (more)

I feel like I beg wit you I plead wit you (plead wit you)

I don't comprehend how you can't love when its so easy to (easy to oh)

I thought you could do it I believed in the naive in you (ohh)

I just need to breathe baby now I got the freedom to (ohh no)

//[Chris Brown]//

She's like a drug

And I don't think I can get rid of her

Cuz she got me in this curse

And it dawned on me I can't do nothing with her

This woman's worth

I can't find my way out

And it hurts

I tried but she won't let me go

Oh,oh,oh,oh,oh she won't let me go

Oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh

She wont let me go //[x2]// "Wanted" You know I'd fall apart without you I don't know how you do what you do 'Cause everything that don't make sense about me  Makes sense when I'm with you Like everything that's green, girl, I need you But it's more than one and one makes two Put aside the math and the logic of it You gotta know you're wanted too

'Cause I wanna wrap you up   Wanna kiss your lips I wanna make you feel wanted And I wanna call you mine Wanna hold your hand forever And never let you forget it   Yeah, I, I wanna make you feel wanted Anyone can tell you you're pretty, yeah And you get that all the time, I know you do   But your beauty's deeper than the make-up And I wanna show you what I see tonight...   When I wrap you up    When I kiss your lips. I I wanna make you feel wanted And I wanna call you mine Wanna hold your hand forever And never let you forget it   'Cause, baby, I, I wanna make you feel wanted As good as you make me feel I wanna make you feel better Better than your fairy tales Better than your best dreams You're more than everything I need You're all I ever wanted All I ever wanted And I just wanna wrap you up   Wanna kiss your lips I wanna make you feel wanted  And I wanna call you mine   Wanna hold your hand forever And never let you forget it   Yeah, I wanna make you feel wanted Baby, I wanna make you feel wanted You'll always be wanted
 * "Love Story" **

We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts: I'm standing there on a balcony in summer air.

See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns. See you make your way through the crowd And say, "Hello," Little did I know...

That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles, And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet" And I was crying on the staircase Begging you, "Please don't go" And I said...

Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone. I'll be waiting; all that's left to do is run. You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess, It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes".

So I sneak out to the garden to see you. We keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew So close your eyes... escape this town for a little while. Oh, oh.

'cause you were Romeo - I was a scarlet letter, And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet" But you were everything to me, I was begging you, "Please don't go" And I said...

Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone. I'll be waiting; all that's left to do is run. You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess. It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes".

Romeo, save me, they're trying to tell me how to feel. This love is difficult but it's real. Don't be afraid, we'll make it out of this mess. It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes".

Oh, oh.

I got tired of waiting Wondering if you were ever coming around. My faith in you was fading When I met you on the outskirts of town. And I said...

Romeo, save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you but you never come. Is this in my head? I don't know what to think. He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said...

Marry me, Juliet, you'll never have to be alone. I love you, and that's all I really know. I talked to your dad ‒ go pick out a white dress It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes".

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

'cause we were both young when I first saw you Works Skin: Talking about Sex,Class and Literature. The Women Who Hate Me. Bastard Out of Carolina.

Comparisons The Women Who Hate Me and Yesterday. Bastard Out of Carolina and Wanted. Skin and Love Story.