"My job is to lay it out clearly,……" — Katherine Boo
"My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions.Very little journalism is world changing. But if change is to happen, it will be because people with power have a better sense of what’s happening to people who have none."
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Katherine Boo
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17 Quotes by Katherine Boo
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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and…
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But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as…
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Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make…
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A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught
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In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
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Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at…
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Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school…
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I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts…
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...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
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It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did…
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.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.
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What you don't want is always going to be with you What you want is never going to be with…
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