Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.

Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

Poverty is the events of forced separation of mass from the nature. Poverty is not the cause but the outcome. Poverty is not natural, it is created, it is abnormal, unexpected and unwanted. Its was...

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!