“You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behin...” — Matthew Desmond Quote

“You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.”

“Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.”

“The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.”

“There should be a tacit code or understanding among privileged people not to endorse things that give others an inferiority complex.”

“No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.”

“The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.”