“I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.” PeopleWaySleepRoomsCitiesFiveStreetsNew YorkMinesTenShadowTrainBottomSnowFlightNew York CityCoalStarvingSleeping In Author:Bob Dylan
“It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the bottom end of the scale.” ThinkingEndsGrowthRoomsMistakeIncreaseBottomScalesWages Author:Jared Bernstein
“He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.” NeedsMindFirstsRoomsSunAirFoodMonthsFirst TimeGreenCookingLaysBottomShoesGlassesBreathingCulinaryHospitalsLitRubberGelato Book:The English Patient Source: The English Patient
“So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room.” WellsFightingSpaceRoomsBottomOppressionFighting Each Other Author:Cheryl Clarke
“A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite - it should look inside of us. When I put them in the middle of the room, I attach the paintings at the top to the ceiling and on the bottom to the floor. I prefer this to just hanging them from the ceiling because it creates a place in a space, like a wall.” ShouldLooksSpaceRoomsMiddlePaintingWallWindowOppositesBottomCeilings Author:Pierre Soulages