Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community

p. 89

‘Those who sell drugs laugh about the girls who become hooked, for they are capable of doing anything for a ‘blast’ of crack. Dealers sometimes compare these addicts with who they used to be and take pride in bringing them down.’ They sneer about the decent, ‘good-looking girls who were so hard to get next to’ sexually in high school, but who are ‘now doing everything in the book.”