CLOCKWISE
Stella
“I have to move around because nobody in society gets it, that
it’s very difficult for a female to live out here, even if she’s in a small
tent at night or whatever. Males don’t get it. You’re off limit. I am a widow
now, and I now serve God. So, you’re not gonna attack me intimately, because
it’s not allowed. That’s against man’s law and God’s law, so you’re not gonna
do it. So I have to move around because of the two incidents that happened, all
around the West Valley. I can’t stay in one place more than one night. One guy
at 3:30 in the morning tried to sodomize me at Chatsworth station. Carlos got
up and helped me to get my leg braces on and I fled. We just put everything
there and I fled. I left the area. You know, it was shocking.”
Precious
“When I get my license and buy a truck I’m getting out of California. Can’t win the lottery. California sucks. Used to be money, 1960 when I came. Money, money, money. Now everything is so expensive. I want to go to Hawaii, but I don’t have enough money to go there.”
Nancy
“Most people don’t know that you’re homeless. So they treat you normally, but in some of
the facilities which deal with the homeless you can be patronized pretty
seriously… pretty demeaning. Like what happened here… yeah. You’re spoken to as
if you were a small retarded naughty child of the kindergarten variety.”
Ronald
“I was married about 50 years ago, but she kicked me out of
the house. I had a stepdaughter, that’s all. She just thought I was messin’
around with her daughter, so that’s why she threw me out. I just live day by
day, one day at a time as they say.”