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There was no reason for me to be depressed. But anytime I was happy, the fear of an awful catastrophe would follow, so I made myself feel awful to preempt the catastrophe’s hitting. Overtaxed by this anxiety, I sank into deep depression. A
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“We walk around carrying Closed signs around our necks while we press Open to our chests and wonder why the doorbell never rings.”
― The Anatomy of Being
― The Anatomy of Being
“The home is the center of life. It is a refuge from the grind of work, the pressure of school, and the menace of the streets. We say that at home, we can “be ourselves.” Everywhere else, we are someone else. At home, we remove our masks.
The home is the wellspring of personhood. It is where our identity takes root and blossoms, where as children, we imagine, play, and question, and as adolescents, we retreat and try. As we grow older, we hope to settle into a place to raise a family or pursue work. When we try to understand ourselves, we often begin by considering the kind of home in which we were raised.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The home is the wellspring of personhood. It is where our identity takes root and blossoms, where as children, we imagine, play, and question, and as adolescents, we retreat and try. As we grow older, we hope to settle into a place to raise a family or pursue work. When we try to understand ourselves, we often begin by considering the kind of home in which we were raised.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality. Because black men were disproportionately incarcerated and black women disproportionately evicted, uniformly denying housing to applicants with recent criminal or eviction records still had an incommensurate impact on African Americans.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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