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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."
"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
"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."
"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."
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"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."
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