Different people Quote by Matthew Desmond

I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative device, a…

— Matthew Desmond

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

— Matthew Desmond

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents.…

— Bernard Hill

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

— J. K. Rowling

“from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others; and biological poverty, which puts the very…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the…

— Honore de Balzac

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…

— Tom Waits

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

— Megan Lee

Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.

— Matthew Desmond

I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I…

— Harry Belafonte

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way…

— Jennifer Garner

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

— Hebrew Proverb