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“Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The rent eats first.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“The smell of Black & Milds evokes a nostalgia for the hoodrat childhood of which I was robbed.”
― Issa Rae, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

“There is music blasting from Ayoola's room, she's listening to Whitney Housten's I Wanna Dance With Somebody. It would be more appropriate to play Brymo or Lorde, something solemn or yearning, rather than the musical equivalent of a pack of M&Ms”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer