“You are unique like a fingerprint...
Press yourself hard to create the foundation of your uniqueness.”
“Any degree of waste is too much.”
“Regurgitating stories of suffering seems to be part of the process to access any kind of support, whether it be a bursary, deadline extension, therapy, social housing it asylum. I want no longer to see this as natural, as just how things are.”
Source: Pearls from Their Mouth
“Dear Son,
God can make or break any contract. Do not compromise your faith or integrity for anyone.”
Source: Dear Son: An Imaginary Letter from a Loving Dad
“An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.”
Source: Half A Shadow
“Indeed, we had caused some surprise by having a child not only while renting, but while renting in precarious circumstances, in furnished property, and without the proper contract and strict rent control enjoyed by most tenants.”
Source: An Italian Education
“People will always rent the affordable rental over the expensive one, even if it means driving a little further.”
“Rosewood Courts, Austin's Eastside project for African Americans, was built on land obtained by condemning Emancipation Park, the site of an annual festival to commemorate the abolition of slavery. The park had been privately owned by a neighborhood association the Travis County Emancipation Organization, and residents protested the condemnation of this community institution in which they took great pride. But their objects had no effect, despite the availability of other vacant land.”
Source: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
“In New Jersey, for example, Governor Harold Hoffman refused to allow any camps for African American corps members because of what he termed “local resentment.” The national CCC director, Robert Fechner, implemented a policy never to “force colored companies on localities that have openly declared their opposition to them.”
Source: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
“The USHA manual warned that it was undesirable to have projects for white families “in areas now occupied for Negroes” and added: “The aim of the [local housing] authority should be the preservation rather than the disruption of community social structures which best fit the desires of the groups concerned.”
Source: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America