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“You took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent — at least when it comes to housing — we should own up to that decision and stop repeating the politicians' canard about one of the richest countries on the planet being unable to afford doing more. If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“He looked up at the empty clouds, and as he died he wondered, not for the first time but for the very last, why it should be that we are made for a bright world, but live in a dark one.”
― The Bright Sword
― The Bright Sword
“The world is almost peaceful when you stop trying to understand it.”
― The Poet X
― The Poet X
“Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always able to offer them stability; stability cost too much. She was not always able to protect them from dangerous streets; those streets were her streets. Arleen sacrificed for her boys, fed them as best she could, clothed them with what she had. But when they wanted more than she could give, she had ways, some subtle, others not, of telling them they didn’t deserve it.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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