{"quotes":[{"text":"I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.","author":"Heather O'Neill","tags":["canada","drug-addiction","drugs","hobo","homeless","jean-michel","life","montréal","pg-81","street"],"id":1581,"author_id":"Heather+O%27Neill"},{"text":"Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["art","beggar","begging","homeless","homelessness","hunger","mastery","poverty"],"id":1849,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility is that the past has become homeless, and we are offering it a place to inhabit in the present.","author":"Yiyun Li","tags":["haunted","haunting","home","homeless"],"id":2668,"author_id":"Yiyun+Li"},{"text":"It was as though God's hand was reaching down to Anna, and she was reaching her hands to Harvey and Joe, creating a circle of love.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["christ","circle-of-love","friendship","god","god-s-love","homeless","jesus","jesus-christ","love"],"id":5671,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"},{"text":"For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in their lives. She also knew she delivered the sandwiches for her own sanity. Something would crumble inside of her if she ever walked by a homeless person and pretended not to notice. Or simply didn't care. In a way, she believed that homeless people were treated as Indians had always been treated. Badly. The homeless were like an Indian tribe, nomadic and powerless, just filled with more than any tribe's share of crazy people and cripples. So, a homeless Indian belonged to two tribes, and was the lowest form of life in the city. The powerful white men of Seattle had created a law that made it illegal to sit on the sidewalk. That ordinance was crazier and much more evil than any homeless person. Sometimes Marie wondered if she worked so hard at anything only because she hated powerful white men. She wondered if she went to college and received good grades just because she was looking for revenge.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["frustration","homeless","native-americans","poverty","power","privilege","race","revenge"],"id":13832,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.","author":"Paul Dano","tags":["homeless","me","people "],"id":22118,"author_id":"Paul+Dano"},{"text":"I was homeless for almost a year and a half, just living in my car or bouncing around peoples' houses, going to 7-Eleven at the end of the day and asking them for the taquitos that they were going to throw out because I hadn't eaten in two days.","author":"Andy Biersack","tags":["day","homeless","end "],"id":26044,"author_id":"Andy+Biersack"},{"text":"A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","compassion","compassionate","deep","dictum","dictums","dustbin","dustbins","eat","eating","epigram","epigrams","food","garbage","garbage-can","garbage-cans","gnome","gnomes","hobo","hobos","homeless","humor","humour","insightful","leftovers","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","meal","meals","philanthropist","philanthropists","philanthropy","pity","poor","portion","poverty","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","rich","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","sincere","sincerity","sympathetic","sympathy","thought-provoking","thoughtful","trash","trash-can","trash-cans","truly"],"id":26095,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"People are priceless. A chance meeting with a loving human being was worth more than any amount of money in the world. I felt rich.","author":"Victor Castelo","tags":["homeless","inspirational","love","money"],"id":42078,"author_id":"Victor+Castelo"},{"text":"You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.","author":"Jello Biafra","tags":["football","golf","homeless "],"id":47643,"author_id":"Jello+Biafra"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":90,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}