Michael Eric Dyson It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more. – Michael Eric Dyson Bad Quotes Black Quotes Brown Quotes Class Quotes Female Quotes Hurt Quotes Poor Quotes Race Quotes Simply Quotes White Quotes Worse Quotes Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn’t have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America’s poor deserve better than this. Class certainly loomed large in Katrina’s aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.
Rita Dove It really wasn’t until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing. – Rita Dove
Phoebe Tonkin Los Angeles and Sydney are very similar, but I definitely enjoy more fresh seafood when I’m back in Australia, as there is so much great, fresh produce here. I also like going swimming at the beach while I’m home, too. – Phoebe Tonkin
Erin Wasson I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities. – Erin Wasson
Isaac Hempstead Wright You can learn something from everyone in ‘Game of Thrones,’ whether it is something you learn not to do or something you learn to do. – Isaac Hempstead Wright
Sarah Parcak Satellite archaeology’ refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features. – Sarah Parcak
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