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If you’re not sure where to begin, start with the following: Chop Shop, God Bless the Child, Winter’s Bone, Ballast, Grapes of Wrath, Heroes for Sale, Make Way for Tomorrow, City Lights, Claudine, King of the Hill, The Cool World, Killer of
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“No one understands a stranger’s tragedy, God willing you might understand your own.”
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
“But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“As my physics teacher always said, “My dear students! Just remember that money solves all problems, even differential equations.”
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
“When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“It was once said that the poor are “constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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