5 Quotes & Sayings By Jill Leovy

Jill Leovy is the author of Ghettoside, the story of the murders of Angel Garcia, Yusuf Bey IV, and Michael Stewart in Los Angeles. She is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, a regular contributor to The Atlantic, and a regular commentator on CNN and NPR. She has been a staff writer for "The Los Angeles Times Magazine" and a contributing editor at Outside. Her first book was Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, which was published in 2014 Read more

In 2015 she published "Locked In: The True Story Of One Woman's Obsessive Quest for Memory."

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She sensed that they expected her to fall apart, but she didn't know how to fall apart. She knew it was strange. She looked the same despite this massive piece of herself that had gone missing. She acted the same. She went to work, greeted people, went home. Everything normal on the outside, except the occassional muffled crying on the job. Jill Leovy
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It might not seem self-evident that impunity for white violence against blacks would engender black-on-black murder. But when people are stripped of legal protection and placed in desperate straits, they are more, not less, likely to turn on each other. Lawless settings are terrifying; if people can do whatever they want to each other, there are always enough bullies to make it ugly. Americans are nostalgic for the village setting and hold dear the notion of community, so the idea that the oppressed do not band together in solidarity is counter to our myths. But community spawns communal justice; the village gives rise to the feud. Jill Leovy
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He presented justice as a psychological relief. Jill Leovy
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He presented justice as a psychological relief... Jill Leovy