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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.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

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.

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

Poverty is unnecessary.

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

What you don't want to do - if you're concerned about poverty, if you're concerned about providing opportunity - you don't want to rip the bottom rung of the ladder of opportunity away from people.