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You know, I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening when we start telling the young, hard-working, quote-unquote smart kids that they need to measure success by how far they get away from our communities.

Majora Carter

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Majora Carter
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 27
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