Zitat des Tages von Adrian Nicole LeBlanc:
I think you end up on the lucky side, or you don't.
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.
Satisfaction isn't a state that comes easily to me.
My earnestness at the injustices I witnessed when I was writing 'Random Family' may have been my gravest reportorial offense during the early years of reporting. When I discuss the book with students, they often ask me how I could 'stand by' in the face of so much suffering; the egregiousness wasn't my powerlessness but my surprise.
Adrian Leon LeBlanc, my dad and my namesake, his keen joy in observing people and the world is the reason I became a journalist.
My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.
I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.