Old Zinc Quote by Marlon James

“We too are so dazzled by power and money as to forget our essential fragility, forget that all of us our in the ghetto,…

— Primo Levi

“In the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my father's house... Its expansive lawn is utterly useless, wild like it smokes its…

— Mat Johnson

“As I walked out of the ghetto with its tombstone-crowned walls and along the streets of Krakow, I was dumbfounded to see that life…

— Leon Leyson

“A nation is not made welthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.”

— Adam Smith

“...that thing that's taken refuge there in that zinc bucket, without a wife, a career, a conapt, or money or the possibility of encountering…

— Philip K. Dick

“In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn’t like America, where we…

— janet fitch

“Beneath the expensive clothes, unplaceable accent, and cultured veneer, there’s something that never crawled all the way out of the swamp. It didn’t want…

— Karen Marie Moning

“These old houses are only brick and wood, soaked in human sweat, grained with human dirt.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Traditional homes of our old world have been abandoned, windows shattered, roofs collapsing, red and green and blue paint scrubbed into muted shades to…

— Tahereh Mafi

“You can’t help but admire the sense of smell the wealthy possess. Even at the edges of a foul, trash-infested city, they always find…

— Ge Fei

“The story played out in virtually every northern city—migrants sealed off in overcrowded colonies that would become the foundation for ghettos that would persist…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“I have spent most of my adult life in a ghetto among countless other outsiders who have also learned how to talk through the…

— Jamake Highwater