Quotes about Urban

At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.

And so we picked up our bags, he the trunk with his one good arm and I the rest, and staggered up to the cable-car stop; in a moment rolled down the hill with our legs dangling to the sidewalk from the jiggling shelf, two broken-down heroes of the Western night.

I did everything with that great mad joy you get when you return to New York City.

She did not mind this new background; she was indifferent to the slums as she had been indifferent to the drawing rooms.

The human shapes moving past him in the streets of the city were physical objects without any meaning.

It's in the misery of some unnamed slum that the next killer virus will emerge.

Carl Sandburg poem come to life. There were inner-city kids jostling one another on a field trip, well-coiffed bankers working their flip phones, farmers in seed caps looking to widen the locks that allowed industrial barges to take their crops to market. You'd see Latina moms looking to fund a new day-care center and middle-aged biker crews, complete with muttonchops and leather jackets, trying to stop yet another legislative effort to make them wear helmets.

The policy of our nation is made in cities, controlled largely by urban voters who aren't well informed about the changes on the face of our land, and the men and women who work it.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Every city is a living body.