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“Corporations do not feel compassion. Sickness and loss do not move them. Appealing to their humanity is not an effective political strategy.”
― Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
― Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
“The USDA is responsible for feeding students who cannot afford lunch. Letting empathetic strangers pick up the tab falsely frames poverty, food insecurity, and discrimination as individual, not systemic, issues”
― Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
― Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
“Because suddenly what I wanted more than anything for my children was what he had wanted for his - identities formed from within - for our mirrors, in other words, to first and foremost reflect humans.”
― Magically Black and Other Essays
― Magically Black and Other Essays
“Subsidies make the unhealthiest food the cheapest. And prices for basic goods are higher in poor neighborhoods. Items sold in bigger packages cost less per ounce but stores in poor areas generally stock only small quantities”
― Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
― Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
“I pictured myself wandering around in the middle of the night, fearing no one, and being oblivious to causing fear...What does it feel like, I wondered, for a Black man to experience such a thing? Freedom? Bliss? Nothing at all? I do not know. I simply, for the life of me, cannot imagine it. Though Lord knows I've tried.”
― Magically Black and Other Essays
― Magically Black and Other Essays
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