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"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."
"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
"Clothes are a homeless man's home."
"We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us."
"In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike."
"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"
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"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."
"AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call 'The Presumption of Sickness,' i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative."
"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."
"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."
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