Rose Betit quote: We're *all* sparrows.

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”

Source: Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”

Inspirational Quotes Alice In Wonderland Lewis Carroll

Book:Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Dear Pavement, The sun used to be the only thing to warm you, and now it’s body heat—a mingling recipe of human flesh and cockroach, of human flesh and rodent, of human flesh and tossed quarters. A cheek rests on you, a cheek capable of being kissed by a bishop, a cheek once held in a mother’s palm, a cheek that deserves more than the prickly pebbled pillow you are.”

Poverty Morality Humanitarian Homelessness The Goodbye Song Homeless People

Book:The Goodbye Song

Source: The Goodbye Song

“These remarks reflect the expansive reach of the discourse on law and order, which since the 1970s tended to conflate "crime" with civil rights protests in the South and with the widespread turmoil generated by racism in the North. The moral panic produced by this discourse increasingly meant that the "law and order" slogan served as a proxy for more explicit calls to suppress Black movements and ultimately also to criminalize indiscriminately broad swaths of the Black population. By 1994, the deindustrialization of the U.S. economy, produced by global economic shifts, was having a deleterious impact on working-class Black communities. The massive loss of jobs in the manufacturing sector, especially in cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, had the result, according to Joe William Trotter, that "the black urban working class nearly disappeared by the early 1990s." Combined with the disestablishment of welfare state benefits, these economic shifts caused vast numbers of Black people to seek other—sometimes "illegal"—means of survival. It is not accidental that the full force of the crack epidemic was felt during the 1980s and early '90s. During this period there were few signs of governmental effort to address the circumstances responsible for the rapid impoverishment of working-class Black communities, and the 1994 Crime Bill was emblematic of the turn to carceral "solutions" as a response to the impact of forces of global capitalism. As Cedric Robinson has pointed out, capitalism has always been racial capitalism, and the Crime Bill was a formidable indication that Republicans and Democrats in Washington were united in their acceptance of punitive strategies to stave off the effects of Black impoverishment.”

Law Poverty Crime African Americans Blacks Incarceration

Book:Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Source: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

“The public-private partnership at the core of sustainable development seems to work well for the most privileged.”

Poverty Development Climate Change

Book:Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed

Source: Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed

“I do not know how many times I pretended to smile with moist eyes. Nobody knows how many times I pretended to smile with moist eyes because nobody noticed.”

Inspirational Poetry Friendship Poverty Self Esteem Young Adult Adoption Homelessness Mental Health Awareness Foster Children

Book:Pinwheels and Dandelions