David P. Leong > Quotes

“if our roots aren’t healthy, then our fruits won’t be, either. We have to relearn how to cultivate communities from the seedbed; we can’t sow homogeneous exclusion and then expect to reap diverse belonging. First we need to weed the garden, and then we can replant.”
― David P. Leong, Race & Place: How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation