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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Poor,

"I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York."

Kristin Davis, American Actress

Poor,

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Poor,

"Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical."

Edgard Varese, American Composer

Poor,

"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Poor, Right, Wonder

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

Thomas Day, British Author

Poor, Right, Want

"It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline."

George Lindsey, American Actor

Poor,

"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."

Rose Schneiderman, Polish Activist

Poor, Talk

"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."

Lisa Loeb, American Musician

Poor,

"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Poor,

Explore more quotes by August Wilson

"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

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

First

"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

"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."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

"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