Jacob

“No one understands a stranger’s tragedy, God willing you might understand your own.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

“But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality.”
― Matthew Desmond, 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.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, 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.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah