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"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

Poor, Tears

"Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle."

Henri Rousseau, French Artist

Poor,

"I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better."

Sophie Tucker, American Entertainer

Poor,

"The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them."

David Brooks, American Politician

Poor,

"I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Poor,

"Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical."

Edgard Varese, American Composer

Poor,

"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Poor,

"We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread."

Thomas Day, British Author

Poor, Right, Want

"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."

Thomas Malthus, English Economist

Poor,

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."

Experience

"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."

First

"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."

Now

"Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone."

Awards

"All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other."

Love

"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."

Play

"Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history."

History

"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."

Play

"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."

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