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You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

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.

Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.

If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

I can't eradicate poverty, but at least for the people around me, I can help make sure no child is denied a dream.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.