Yale university Quote by Diane Ackerman

“We've only been living in these ghettos for seventy-five years or so, but the other three hundred years -- I think this is worth…

— Ernest J. Gaines

“The easy danger of stories, their adhesive allure.”

— Leah Hager Cohen

“Lived in Chicago, survived in New York, brooded in Detroit, floundered in lots of places, arrived here late, after living in libraries around the…

— Ray Bradbury

“other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs.”

— J.D. Vance

“A huge maze of tents and mud huts and homes built from plastic and aluminum siding in a labyrinth of narrow passageways littered with…

— Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed

“Persepolis Rising Table of Contents By James S. A. Corey”

— James S.A. Corey

“Somehow this redneck town allows the possibility of a middle-aged New York City woman bouncing round a house alone more generously than Woodstock or…

— Chris Kraus

“Ghetto is not the People but their state of mind.”

— Joan Ambu

“Walls are more than stone and mortar. They are silent sentinels, their eyes following every movement, their mouths sealed yet harboring countless reminiscences. They're…

— Monika Ajay Kaul

“We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But…

— Richard Paul Evans

“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.”

— Anthony Doerr

“A person lives for years, touches so many people, and then at the end winds up just a small picture and a few paragraphs…

— Fannie Flagg