#street

If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody? ↗

— John C. White

#going #how #know #like #policeman

The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense. ↗

— Judah Freed

#environment #global #occupy-wall-street #philosophy #philosophy-of-life

I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell. There's Heaven then there's Hell niggas One day your cruisin' in your seven, Next day your sweatin', forgettin' your lies, Alibis ain't matchin' up, bullshit catchin' up Hit with the RICO, they repoed your vehicle Everything was all good just a week ago 'Bout to start bitchin' ain't you? Ready to start snitchin' ain't you? I forgive you. Weak ass, hustlin' just ain't you Aside from the fast cars Honeys that shake they ass in bars You know you wouldn't be involved With the Underworld dealers, carriers of mac-millers East coast bodiers, West coast cap-peelers Little monkey niggas turned gorillas. ↗

— Jay-Z

#blackness #crime #crime-and-punishment #freakonomics #ghetto

When I was thinking about How Poetry Saved My Life entering the “big literary world” I more so viewed it as sub genre or an underdog book because there are still comparatively so few books about sex work, especially from authors who once worked street, like I have. Disclosing to working street-level sex work still feels risky to me. Apart from Runaway by Evelyn Lau (published in 1989) I have yet to read a first person memoir about street work. More of these stories must be out there—perhaps I just haven’t found them yet. ↗

— Amber Dawn

#street-sex-work #survival-sex-work #life

She’s definitely a romance writer. I’ve primed her to be a romance writer, subjecting her to so many romantic dramas it would be a miracle if she didn’t become a romance writer. ↗

— Samantha Young

#ellie-carmichael #on-dublin-street #samantha-young #until-fountain-bridge #romantic

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. ↗

— Felix Adler

#dark #great #hero #kindles #life

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#carelessly #change #cigarette #especially #even

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street. ↗

— Nicole Appleton

#eye #going #i #know #like

When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work? ↗

— Artur Davis

#blast #children #genius #glorified #hear

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#corners #distribute #forums #go #groups