Baltimore Quote by Lisa Samson

“In New Orleans, no matter how much money you had in the bank, you looked on poverty every day.”

— Dan Baum

“Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to…

— Hannah Kent

“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Baltimore was Earth writ small, crowded and bored. Its citizens were caught between the dismal life of basic and the barriers of class, race,…

— James S.A. Corey

“Stop the poverty! Where do they think they are going?!”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“Enjoy a life of poverty. Become a poet.”

— Jarod Kintz

“America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth.”

— Bryant McGill

“At present I do not feel that I have seen more than the fringe of poverty. Still, I can point to one or two…

— George Orwell

“Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squattercamp.”

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

“Poverty smothers our dreams even before we have finished dreaming them.”

— Rafik Schami

“Baltimore's slogan was 'The City that Reads', but like the rest of its one million or so inhabitants Lori knew that was a pipedream;…

— Stephen Leather

“It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty.”

— Pearl S. Buck