“This was, by comparison, a safe, secure, clean world. And looking at it, she thought it must be rather pleasant to be able to live anywhere you wanted to, just so you could pay the rent, instead of having to find out first whether it was a place where colored people were permitted to live.”
Quote by Ann Petry
Book:The Street
Work
The Street
Browse quotes and source details for this work. more
Author
You May Also Like
“Part of being a good neighbor is respecting what your close neighbors are telling you.”
Source: Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
Source: Brave
Source: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
Source: Brave
“In our culture, busyness is often worn as a badge of honor.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity: A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
