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"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
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"Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!"
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"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."
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"I am a poor hater."
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"I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday."
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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."
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"I think I'm a very poor piano player."
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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
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"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."
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"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."
First
"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
"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."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
"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
"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
"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
Play
"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."
Experience
"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."
Poor
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