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"Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot."
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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."
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"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
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"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."
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"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
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"Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor."
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
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"And except on a certain kind of winter evening-six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that-except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it."
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"Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross."
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"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."
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"I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg."
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"Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot."
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"For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning."
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