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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
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"I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal."
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"Though I be poor, I'm honest."
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"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."
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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
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"He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more."
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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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"Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates."
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"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."
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"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
Play
"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
"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."
Poor
"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."
First
"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."
Experience
"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"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."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
"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
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