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Majora Carter Quotes
American
-
Activist
October 27, 1966
Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
Majora Carter
Good
Power
Plants
Bad
Bad Stuff
Facilities
Parks
Power Plants
Reliable
Trees
Waste
Class
Extremely
Find
Like
Might
Race
Stuff
Where
To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
Majora Carter
Me
You
Always
Charity
Hurts
About
Because
Done
Giving
Just
Often
Supposed
Until
As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
Majora Carter
Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
Majora Carter
Justice
Environmental
Through
Bronx
Advocate
Economic Development
South Bronx
Sustainable
Development
Economic
Projects
South
Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else.
Majora Carter
You
Someone
Trash
Mean
Affecting
Hauled
Away
Because
Else
Gets
Just
Just Because
Piece
Throw
My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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World
Together
Culture
Opportunity
Closer
Self-Interest
Tied
Dream
Else
Everybody
Growing
Real
See
Someone
Them
Up
Whether
Will
What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
Majora Carter
Life
City
Quality
Places
Decent
Inner
Inner City
Quality Of Life
Considered
Having
Popular
Whether
One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
Majora Carter
Respect
Community
Always
Sometimes
Block
Board
Bronx
Corner
Craziest
Meetings
Noticed
Boy
Come
Guys
Just
Leaders
One Thing
Places
Show
Thing
Up
Working
You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.
Majora Carter
You
Fear
People
Opportunity
Same Thing
Different
Know
Look
May
Really
Same
Thing
Understand
We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
Majora Carter
World
Happy
Live
Everyone
Deserves
Sane
Decide
Got
Healthy
Want
I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.
Majora Carter
Positive
Business
Money
I Am
Business Owner
Efficiently
Host
Owner
Small Business
Strategist
Also
Am
Economic
Everyone
Find
Goals
Local
More
Realize
Small
Use
Ways
Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
Majora Carter
Health
Green
People
Believe
Cheaper
Costs
Equation
Expensive
Handling
Public Health
Services
Solutions
Waste
Actually
Many
Much
Public
Same
Social
Still
Too
Most people don't know that the biggest regret that I have - and it's a biggie - is not fighting harder for policy and very practical measures to support the development of the green jobs industry.
Majora Carter
Regret
Green
People
Support
Biggie
Measures
Practical
Biggest
Development
Fighting
Harder
Industry
Jobs
Know
Most
Policy
Very
I think the biggest learned behavior that I would love to get rid of is that little voice that tells you, 'That's stupid. You shouldn't say that.' And then five seconds later, you hear somebody saying the same thing, and you think, 'Seriously, what is wrong with me?' I think, in particular, a lot of women do it. And that's a problem.
Majora Carter
'This will pass and it always does.' I consistently have to keep telling myself that because being an entrepreneur means that you go to those dark places a lot, and sometimes they're real. You're wondering if you can you make payroll. There is a deadline, and you haven't slept in a while. It's real.
Majora Carter
Myself
You
Will
Sometimes
Consistently
Dark Places
Deadline
Entrepreneur
Payroll
Slept
Wondering
Always
Because
Being
Dark
Does
Go
Keep
Lot
Make
Means
Pass
Places
Real
Telling
Those
While
I want to be known internationally as one of the most creative real estate developers in low-income communities. I want to be known as someone who actually promotes economic diversity and does a great job.
Majora Carter
Great
Job
Diversity
Real
Developers
Estate
Great Job
Internationally
Low-Income
Real Estate
Actually
Communities
Creative
Does
Economic
Known
Most
Someone
Want
Who
Working-class and poor urban Americans are not benefiting economically from our current food system. It relies too much on transportation, chemical fertilization, big use of water, and also refrigeration.
Majora Carter
Food
Water
Poor
Big
Benefiting
Chemical
Current
Economically
Fertilization
Transportation
Urban
Working-Class
Also
American
Much
Our
System
Too
Too Much
Use
Even when we think or talk about recycling, lots of recyclable stuff ends up getting incinerated or in landfills and leaving many municipalities, diversion rates - they leave much to be recycled. And where is this waste handled? Usually in poor communities.
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Getting
Think
Poor
Leave
Diversion
Ends
Handled
Leaving
Rates
Recycled
Recycling
Waste
About
Communities
Even
Lots
Many
Much
Stuff
Talk
Up
Where
Smart infrastructure can provide cost-saving ways for municipalities to handle both infrastructure and social needs. And we want to shift the systems that open the doors for people who were formerly tax burdens to become part of the tax base.
Majora Carter
People
Smart
Doors
Who
Base
Burdens
Handle
Infrastructure
Shift
Systems
The Doors
Become
Both
Needs
Open
Part
Provide
Social
Tax
Want
Ways
Were
We need to work together to embrace and repair our land, repair our power systems, and repair ourselves. It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums, and other tributes to all of our collective failures.
Majora Carter
Work
Time
Power
Together
Collective
Embrace
Failures
Malls
Prisons
Repair
Shopping
Stadiums
Systems
Work Together
Building
Land
Need
Other
Our
Ourselves
Stop
Environmental justice, for those of you who may not be familiar with the term, goes something like this: no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.
Majora Carter
You
Justice
Environmental
Community
Benefits
Burdens
Familiar
Term
Any
Goes
Less
Like
May
More
Other
Should
Something
Than
Those
Who
From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.
Majora Carter
Environmental
Perspective
Planning
Begets
Degradation
Economic
Social
Which
Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor people of color, both hotbeds of cultural innovation: think hip-hop and jazz. Both are waterfront communities that host both industries and residents in close proximity of one another.
Majora Carter
I do have a problem with developments that hyper-exploit politically vulnerable communities for profit. That it continues is a shame upon us all, because we are all responsible for the future that we create.
Majora Carter
Future
Us
Create
Shame
Developments
Politically
Profit
Vulnerable
Because
Communities
Problem
Responsible
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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