We really need to demystify poverty and demonstrate that it is a failure of the system and not a failure of individuals. We need to talk about it and deconstruct these lies. People who aspire to grab public attention can do an awful lot to show what —Julianne Malveaux More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. —James Baldwin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've been poor and I've been rich. Rich is better. —Beatrice Kaufman More about this quote Tags: poverty wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motorboats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. . . . And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Great wealth is its own nationality. —Velda Johnston More about this quote Tags: politics wealth nationality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How do you make a million? You start with $900,000. —Stephen Lewis More about this quote Tags: money wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The American myth that anyone who works hard will get ahead, and that wealth accumulation is a product of individual effort and merit, is no longer sustainable. —Manning Marable More about this quote Tags: myth USA wealth accumulation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance. —Ellen Cushing More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. —Lin Yutang More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. —Anthony Brandt More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around — and why his parents will always wave back. —William D. Tammeus More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I . . . have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood. —Joan Didion More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My father's not a warm and fuzzy guy. He can't bring himself to ask about my feelings or emotions. All he ever asks is "How's the car doing?" Finally I said, "The car is experiencing low self-esteem and financial distress. The car could use a new computer, and probably a new car. —Dana Eagle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together. —Willa Cather More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email