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It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.

It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.


Adrian Nicole LeBlanc  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
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Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is an American journalist whose works focus on the marginalized members of society: adolescents living in poverty, prostitutes, women in prison, etc. She is best known for her 2003 non-fiction book Random Family. She was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship—popularly known as the "Genius Grant"—in 2006.

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Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.

    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc   
 Tags: Fear You Things Illness Hold Most
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My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.

    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc   
 Tags: Me Language Powerful Tool Taught
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Adrian Leon LeBlanc, my dad and my namesake, his keen joy in observing people and the world is the reason I became a journalist.

    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc   
 Tags: Joy People World Reason Observing
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There's one thing I know for sure: When I'm most opinionated, my writing sucks.

    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc   
 Tags: Writing Know Sure One Thing Sucks
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As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'

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 Tags: Reading Moment Think Story Believe
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What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.

    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc   
 Tags: Street Newspaper Same Absolutely
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A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

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 Tags: Detail You Present Big Days Up
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I think you end up on the lucky side, or you don't.

    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc   
 Tags: End Think You Lucky Up I Think
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