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"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Poor,

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Poor,

"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

Poor, Republicans, Vote

"Few, save the poor, feel for the poor."

Letitia Landon, British Poet

Poor,

"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."

Plutarch, Greek Philosopher

Poor,

"I am a poor hater."

James A. Garfield, American President

Poor,

"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

Poor, Will

"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Poor, Property, Right

"Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich."

Naomi Klein, Canadian Journalist

Poor,

"I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me."

Ornette Coleman, American Musician

Poor,

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"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

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

Experience

"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

"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."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

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

Poor