“You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and lovin...” — Matthew Desmond Quote

You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.

Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty rates and higher crime rates than they did before.

Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.

Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.

The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.