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James A. Baldwin

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

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

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"Poor fellow, he suffers from files."

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"I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor."

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

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

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

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"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."

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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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"And plenty makes us poor."

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"Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound."

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"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
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"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."
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"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
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