Briar

“I learned that just because something is one way doesn’t mean it’s the right way, and it doesn’t mean it can’t change. I learned that you don’t need to change the world - you just need to change your small piece of the world.”
― Jasmin Graham

“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”
― Andrea Freeman, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

“Brenda and I had busted our derrieres to raise our sons in a community where it was safe for them to walk its streets at night, which, by dint of their blackness, meant it was not safe for them to walk its streets at night.”
― Jerald Walker, Magically Black and Other Essays

“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”
― Andrea Freeman, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch