“Microwaves are like winter coats. They warm quickly, people never clean them, and they look ugly after a year.”
― Food: A Love Story
― Food: A Love Story
“The FHA required developers to use restrictive covenants barring blacks, and it denied black families the mortgages that allowed working-class whites to leave public housing.”
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“You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.”
― The Circle
― The Circle
“Blacks don’t in fact make up a majority of residents receiving housing assistance nationwide today (the number is closer to about 44 percent).”
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“then he was assigned to lead a company on the island of Quemoy, known during the Cold War as the “lighthouse of the free world,” because it was the final spit of land before the Communist shoreline.”
― Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
― Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
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