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

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.

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.

Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation.

Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.

Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.

Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.

The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you're smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It's like, this is my real life.

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.