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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

— Ray Charles

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✓Similar Perspectives

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

— Amy Sedaris

Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.

— Theresa May

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

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

— J. K. Rowling

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

— Michel Faber

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

— August Wilson

✗Opposing Perspectives

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

— Antonio Porchia

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

— Washington Irving

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

— George Gissing

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

— Kirk Douglas