MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.
Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.
Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.
For me, the only drag about the whole thing is that a lot of my childhood friends had to be relocated to the outskirts of New York because of the gentrification. But I think it's always a good thing when you bring people of all different backgrounds together, that's sort of what New York is.
I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.
We need to define gentrification as separate from the process of displacement.