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"There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd."
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"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
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"Poverty is being single."
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"In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike."
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"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."
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"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."
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"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."
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"Juice is a poor man's dessert."
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"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well."
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"At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line."
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"My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn."
Time
"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food."
Food
"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."
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"I'm more interested in writing than in performing."
Writing
"They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I."
Business
"The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher."
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"He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast."
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"And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural."
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"I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable."
Work
"There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd."
Poverty
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