Nicole Diamond

“In the 1990s, the Clinton administration experimented with a program called Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing, which gave poor families in public housing vouchers to move to safer, middle-income neighborhoods where their children were surrounded every day by evidence that life can be better. Twenty years later, the children of those families have grown up to earn higher incomes and attend college at higher rates than their peers who stayed behind. And”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Beyond my failings as a racist, I knew I was not wanted in the South. When people are engaged in something they are not proud of, they do not welcome witnesses.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America

“this was indeed some crazy world, where the waiting period to get an abortion was longer than the waiting period to get a gun.”
― Jodi Picoult, A Spark of Light

“It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart