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Top 10 Andrea Elliott Quotes (2024 Update)

Andrea Elliott Quote: “For these are all our children. We will all profit from, or pay for, what they become. – James Baldwin.”

1. “For these are all our children. We will all profit from, or pay for, what they become. – James Baldwin.”

— Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott Quote: “Almost half of New York’s 8.3 million residents are living near or below the poverty line.”

2. “Almost half of New York’s 8.3 million residents are living near or below the poverty line.”

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Andrea Elliott Quote: “This is the place that years ago, had caught the eye of Dasani’s Brooklyn principal, Miss Holmes. She had been standing in the theme park below, squinting up, saying, ” What is that?“. Now Dasani stands at the thop of that hill, gazing down at the park. SHe sees a tangle of roller coasters and other rides, a view that leaves her awestruck. It is hard to know which site holds more power- a theme park in the eyes of of a poor child, or a palatial school in the eyes of a Brooklyn principal.”

3. “This is the place that years ago, had caught the eye of Dasani’s Brooklyn principal, Miss Holmes. She had been standing in the theme park below, squinting up, saying, ” What is that?“. Now Dasani stands at the thop of that hill, gazing down at the park. SHe sees a tangle of roller coasters and other rides, a view that leaves her awestruck. It is hard to know which site holds more power- a theme park in the eyes of of a poor child, or a palatial school in the eyes of a Brooklyn principal.”

— Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott Quote: “Almost nothing counts more than the person who shows up.”

4. “Almost nothing counts more than the person who shows up.”

— Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott Quote: “It takes no time for Dasani and Kali to create their own Hershey inspired system, categorizing skin color by chocolate type. Hershey’s lightes kids are “white chocolate”. The brown students are “Milk Chocolate”. Anyone of a deeper shade is ” Dark Chocolate”. “Caramel is reserved for Latinos. I’m basically a Rolo, Dasani tells me. It a candy that’s milk chocolate with Caramel on the inside.”

5. “It takes no time for Dasani and Kali to create their own Hershey inspired system, categorizing skin color by chocolate type. Hershey’s lightes kids are “white chocolate”. The brown students are “Milk Chocolate”. Anyone of a deeper shade is ” Dark Chocolate”. “Caramel is reserved for Latinos. I’m basically a Rolo, Dasani tells me. It a candy that’s milk chocolate with Caramel on the inside.”

— Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott Quote: “Her Knee will have to be replaced, he says. This should come as bad news. But to Chanel, it feels irrelevant. It is like opening a letter after a tornado has flattened her home and reading that she needs a new roof.”

6. “Her Knee will have to be replaced, he says. This should come as bad news. But to Chanel, it feels irrelevant. It is like opening a letter after a tornado has flattened her home and reading that she needs a new roof.”

— Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott Quote: “Chanel did not have her children by accident. She had them by design, planning for this small army of siblings, seeing strength in their bond... “This is a cruel world” she tells me. I didn’t want them to be hurt from the world. I wanted them to rely on each other.”

7. “Chanel did not have her children by accident. She had them by design, planning for this small army of siblings, seeing strength in their bond... “This is a cruel world” she tells me. I didn’t want them to be hurt from the world. I wanted them to rely on each other.”

— Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott Quote: “Racial tensions had long been simmering when, in 1863, Irish immigrants in Manhattan mounted one of the most violent anti-Black insurrections in American history. Angered by a law drafting them to fight in the Civil War – ostensibly to free slaves who might then take their jobs – rioters filled the streets, lynching Black people and burning down the Colored Orphan Asylum on Fifth Avenue as 233 children escaped out the back.”

8. “Racial tensions had long been simmering when, in 1863, Irish immigrants in Manhattan mounted one of the most violent anti-Black insurrections in American history. Angered by a law drafting them to fight in the Civil War – ostensibly to free slaves who might then take their jobs – rioters filled the streets, lynching Black people and burning down the Colored Orphan Asylum on Fifth Avenue as 233 children escaped out the back.”

— Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott Quote: “She had landed the better odds, starting with the drug that ruled their respective childhoods. Chanels mother had chosen crack. Supreme’s parents had fallen to heroin. Both habits could be catastrophic, but given the choice, crack was the better bet. A crack addict could learn to function between highs. Heroin left people flattened.”

9. “She had landed the better odds, starting with the drug that ruled their respective childhoods. Chanels mother had chosen crack. Supreme’s parents had fallen to heroin. Both habits could be catastrophic, but given the choice, crack was the better bet. A crack addict could learn to function between highs. Heroin left people flattened.”

— Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott Quote: “Even dasani’s name speaks of a certain reach. The bottled water had come to Brooklyn’s bodegas just before she was born, catching the fancy of her mother, who could not afford such indulgengences. Who paid for water in a bottle? Just the sound of it- Dasani- conjured another life.”

10. “Even dasani’s name speaks of a certain reach. The bottled water had come to Brooklyn’s bodegas just before she was born, catching the fancy of her mother, who could not afford such indulgengences. Who paid for water in a bottle? Just the sound of it- Dasani- conjured another life.”

— Andrea Elliott

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