If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest in legal services for folks facing eviction.

One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and Eve's.

No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.

Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.

If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.

No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them.

Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families who qualified for assistance received nothing.

Today, the majority of poor renting families in America spend over half of their income on housing, and at least one in four dedicates over 70 percent to paying the rent and keeping the lights on.

Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.

In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions.

We all have 10, 000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.

Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance

Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.

The mind WILL be free, or it will be dead.

I'm looking to get better, and anything that will help me accomplish that, I'm all ears.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.