Quotes About Gentrification

#1. I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

Jim McKay

#2. We need to define gentrification as separate from the process of displacement.

Justin Davidson

#3. Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#4. MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

Sarah Schulman

#5. Gentrification and consumerism ... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

Tom Hayden

#6. I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

Benjamin Clementine

#7. Olympics are coming to Vancouver in 2010 and with it the likelihood of gentrification in this neighborhood. The process has already begun. There's a fear that the politicians, eager to impress the world, will try to displace the addict population.

Gabor Mate

#8. Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.

Scott Hutchins

#9. Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that.

Annalee Newitz

#10. Some people are afraid of gentrification, but what I see is young people want to live in a different world. And they see possibilities here. They see that rents are relatively cheap compared to places like New York and California.

Grace Lee Boggs

#11. Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

Jim McKay

#12. Jealousy had nothing to do with logic.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.

Radha Mitchell

#14. I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Carrie Fisher

#15. Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

T.S. Mathews

#16. I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Dan Quayle

#17. The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

George Eliot

#18. If you think you'll find intellectual stimulation, you're thinking of another era. The conversations are invariably about money or property or schools. I've never been more bored by casual chat.

Andrew Sullivan

#19. It takes great courage to accept the constant changes of the emotions within ourselves, and even more audacity to express them whenever they occur and without filter or delay.

Nityananda Das

#20. Science and art, ... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are harnessed to passing needs and activities, ... then they only complicate and encumber life.

Anton Chekhov

#21. So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

Sam Altman

#22. Grips slipped. Hers had from every surface. She's shaped nothing after all, only been crushed and reshaped. No wonder she felt for the brownstones, the cripples, now filling chaotically with no regard for her plan.

Jonathan Lethem

#23. If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?

Billy Donovan

#24. And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day.

Mark Zero

#25. The fame is birthed through the opposition. The success through the dynamism of fighting the despair. No fight, No lift!

Paul Gitwaza