“It's the city's new rolling slum. Well, it's not exactly new. It's just bigger.”
Rick Reynolds
“A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations.”
Charles Abrams
“If a ragnarök would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art — and I'd go back to trees..”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium”
Cyril Connolly
“Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job . . .”
Whitney M. Young Jr.
“We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.”
Day One
“Most were Born and bred on the street buh not all of us went down the same road, some went down the path of illumination and others the way of destruction..”
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