Josh Weaver

“A 2021 study found that middle-class Black homeowners (with incomes between $75,000 and $100,000) carried higher interest rates on their mortgages than white homeowners with incomes at or below $30,000.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

“Any real change,” writes James Baldwin, “implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or thought one knew; to what one possessed or dreamed that one possessed.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

“Hungry people want bread. The rich convene a panel of experts.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

“Knowing that this kind of unmasked plutocracy can take root in democratic societies without so much as an effort to hide it is like being forced to watch your spouse cheat on you when that is not your kink.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World