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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor. ↗

— Jay-Z

#american #bank #because #country #deep

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden. ↗

— Jay-Z

#anything #being #burden #day #embarrassed

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#hear #neither #nor #poverty #reason

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#because #chord #comfortable #doing #drum

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#day #deserve #economy #essential #every

These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#adjusted #among #been #boat #consider

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#amin #before #breaking #everybody #everything

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot. ↗

— Jack Klugman

#lessons #poverty #privilege #teach

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. ↗

— James Thurber

#another #bewilderment #love #love is #overtakes

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant. ↗

— Alberto Tomba

#extroverted #i #introverted #lot #need