American Quote by Lynn Nottage

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

— Jesmyn Ward

When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

— Matthew Desmond

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The story in America was a vibrant, bottoms-up democracy subverted by corporations and financial speculators. Those people now control much of the narrative. They…

— Kalle Lasn

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often…

— Peter Matthiessen

I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the depth and…

— Matthew Desmond

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go…

— Paul Ryan

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way…

— Little Richard

“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously, that a…

— Kathryn Edin

“people who wanted to change America back to how it used to be. Not an America with the segregation that was part of the…

— Mike Foster

The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food…

— Jesse Jackson