Michelle Adamo #EmptyNestReader

“It is startling sometimes shocking, and occasionally humbling to listen to the views of diverse groups of people from our communities. In equal measure, you end up gaining insight into why our democracy works and wondering how it survives.”
― US Senator Doug Jones

“It’s easy to be judgmental about crime when you live in a world wealthy enough to be removed from it. But the hood taught me that everyone has different notions of right and wrong, different definitions of what constitutes crime, and what level of crime they’re willing to participate in. If a crackhead comes through and he’s got a crate of Corn Flakes boxes he’s stolen out of the back of a supermarket, the poor mom isn’t thinking, I’m aiding and abetting a criminal by buying these Corn Flakes. No. She’s thinking, My family needs food and this guy has Corn Flakes”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine Albright

“We live in a world where we don’t see the ramifications of what we do to others, because we don’t live with them. It would be a whole lot harder for an investment banker to rip off people with subprime mortgages if he actually had to live with the people he was ripping off.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood