Jess Row Quotes

There's an enormous amount of obliviousness: a desire among young gentrifiers to see only the city they want to see.

Jess Row

City
Desire

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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.

Gaby Hoffmann
- Up
- Growing
- City
Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

Laura Miller
- Great
- City
- Fighting
Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

Karan Mahajan
- City
- Example
- Prejudice
I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.

Hailey Bieber
- Energy
- City
- Hard
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

Karolyn Grimes
- School
- Help
- High
In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.

Edmund White
- Up
- Time
- Long