Class Quote by Jesmyn Ward

Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of…

— Jonathan Ames

I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.

— Danny K. Davis

I grew up poor, black, and working class.

— Roger Ross Williams

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship…

— Richard Russo

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My characters come from a good place.

— Seth Rogen

In every community there are poor and unemployed people.

— Mayawati

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

— Jose Mujica

I've been poor most of my life.

— Jermaine Fowler

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

— Rutger Bregman