The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.

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.

While you can’t control everything, you can control more than you think, and you can live your life with a plan that will dramatically improve your chances of ending up at a destination you choose.

Americans are children who must go somewhere else to grow up, and sometimes die.

We should learn to savor some moments to let time feel worth existing

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.

So, because I have a mental illness I should disappear and hide? Ever since I went into hospital, all I have heard and read about is people telling me what they think I should do.

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

Most customer service people are great. It's that one customer service person from hell that drives me crazy!