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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensiv

Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. – James Baldwin

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Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. – James Baldwin

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Christianity
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When the book comes out it may hurt you — but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. – James Baldwin

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A poor man is all schemes. – Proverb

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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. – Sydney Smith, His Wit and Wisdom, 1900

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The poor will always be with you. John 12: 8 – Bible

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That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. – Miguel de Unamuno

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So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. – Octavia Butler

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All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure. – Alberto Giacometti

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