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Joan Clair

  • For some people, there is no room in their landscape for the needy, the marginal and abandoned unless they are in a painting hanging on the wall of a museum or in a production of Les Misérables. There, the destitute and impoverished are appreciated as art. Their appearances are acceptable as long as they are not alive.

    • Joan Clair,
    • in Street Spirit ()

Joan Clair, U.S. activist for those who are homeless