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“You don't have to like all children. Just one. And children don't need the world's best parents, just their own parents. To be perfectly honest with you, what they need most of the time is a chauffeur.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
― Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
― Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
“No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“The distance between grinding poverty and even stable poverty could be so vast that those at the bottom had little hope of climbing out even if they pinched every penny. So they chose not to. Instead, they tried to survive in color, to season the suffering with pleasure. They would get a little high or have a drink or do a bit of gambling or acquire a television. They might buy lobster on food stamps.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
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