Gentrify Quotes & Sayings

As long as a human being lives he will learn . — Lybian Proverb

There can be no higher — J.K. Rowling

It's impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives. — Joyce Meyer

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. — Ezra Stiles

I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience. — G-Eazy

We needed love before we "fell in love," and we will need it as long as we live. — Gary Chapman

People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims. — Annalee Newitz

A man who knows a thing, who is aware of a given danger, and sees the possibility of a remedy with his own eyes, has the duty and obligation, by God, not to work 'silently,' but to stand up before the whole public against the evil and for its cure. — Adolf Hitler

A pinch is a pinch. If you pinch my right nipple, I'm going to say, 'ouch.' If I pinch your right nipple, you're going to say 'ouch.' A foul is a foul and a flagrant is a flagrant. — Shaquille O'Neal

But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership. — Quint Studer

But artists aren't the only marginalized folks controlling real estate. Think about the colonizing role that wealthy white gay men have played in communities of color; they're often the first group to gentrify poor and working-class neighborhoods. Harlem is a good example. Gays have moved in and driven up rents, as have renegade young white students, who want to be cool and hip. This is colonization, post-colonial-style. After all, the people who are "sent back" to recover the territory are always those who don't mind associating with the colored people! And it's a double bind, because some of these people could be allies. Some gay white men are proactive about racism, even while being entrepreneurial. But in the end, they take spaces, redo them, sell them for a certain amount of money, while the people who have been there are displaced. And in some cases, the people of color who are there are perceived as enemies by white newcomers. — Bell Hooks

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. — Saint Augustine

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can. — Jason Isaacs

That the good of the individual is contained in the good of all. (2) That a lawyer's work has the same value as the barber's inasmuch as all have the same right of earning their livelihood from their work. (3) That a life of labour, i.e., the life of the tiller of the soil and the handicraftsman is the life worth living. — Mahatma Gandhi

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy. — Diana Wynne Jones

I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy. — Denis Leary

More things we learned from the Rising: It's hard to gentrify a city that's on fire. — Mira Grant

I can only fulfill myself by serving someone or something apart from myself, and if I am unable to care for anyone or anything separate from me, I am unable to care for myself. — Milton Mayeroff