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“Blacks don’t in fact make up a majority of residents receiving housing assistance nationwide today (the number is closer to about 44 percent).”
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“This book is an account of the collision of two forces: aspiration and authoritarianism.”
― Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
― Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
“Microwaves are like winter coats. They warm quickly, people never clean them, and they look ugly after a year.”
― Food: A Love Story
― Food: A Love Story
“It would be embarrassing trying to explain what an appetizer is to someone from a starving country. “Yeah, the appetizer—that’s the food we eat before we have our food. No, no, you’re thinking of dessert—that’s food we have after we have our food. We eat tons of food. Sometimes there’s so much we just stick it in a bag and bring it home. Then we throw it out the next day. Maybe give it to the dog.”
― Food: A Love Story
― Food: A Love Story
“The FHA required developers to use restrictive covenants barring blacks, and it denied black families the mortgages that allowed working-class whites to leave public housing.”
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