[Ads-l] rent-free in your head

[Steven Losie]

Thanks for the additions, Garson and Laurence. Here's another earlier one.
Quoting an unnamed "woman in Cleveland":

[begin quote]
Black people, for example, need not imitate the worst of white competitive
consumers. They can forge some other values of their own. I say to
competitive blacks sometimes: 'You're letting your white brother live
inside your head rent-free!'
[end quote]
Source: Illiterate America
Author: Jonathan Kozol
Page: 104
Date: 1985
Publisher: Anchor Press/Doubleday (Garden City, NY)
Database: Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/illiterateameric0000kozo_e9l7/page/104/mode/2up?q=rent

That same chapter was also published in:
Source: Public Welfare: The Journal of the American Public Welfare
Association (Washington, DC), Vol.43, No.3, Summer 1985, p.14, col.1
Article title: Illiterate America (Part I)
Author: Jonathan Kozol
Database: Google Books (Snippet view), confirmed via microfilm copy at the
New York Public Library
https://books.google.com/books?id=9vQFAAAAIAAJ&dq=head+rent-free&pg=PA14
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TPlIJLAZ-hX63Rijdi4j0BK1XEXV4M9j/view?usp=sharing

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