"I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city."

-- Thomas Menino

#Work Quotes #Cities Quotes

“The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.”
“Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.”
“There is no such thing as an ugly girl.”
“The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.”
“There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to twenty years, perhaps even further back than that, there's also been an explosion of a very wealthy black class in the United States, but those people are often treated as special cases: they're athletes, entertainers. Jay-Z. Basketball players. The country metabolizes the fact these rich black people exist, but it seems only to reinforce the idea that every other black person is limping along in poverty.”
“I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.”
“Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.”
“You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.”

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