Carolyn Chute Quotes

Poverty for a female, went beyond teh wretchedness of having no money.

Any one of us could fall on hard times. Work and housing have the potential to be unstable, especially for those earning low wages or relying on family and friends. It should not be a criminal offence to sleep on the street.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

Poverty breeds a lack of self reliance.

Viciousness and prejudice flow from economic dislocation, and in turn feed it.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

It's a mistake to think that there's a difference between someone on the street and someone not on the street.

I know people think I'm a stupid little street queen out there begging for change cause there's nothing else she knows how to do.

There's a lot of journalism about poverty, but sometimes it just helps to see that there's a real person who becomes a real mom, who is working with unsustainable wages that could eventually destroy her.

There is nothing compassionate or safe about relegating people, particularly those suffering from mental health or addiction issues, to sleep on our streets.

Whatever people's backgrounds or values, a society where more and more people face a daily struggle to house, clothe and even feed themselves and their families cannot possibly be the answer.

But I think most importantly, we need to realize that not everyone is privileged or born into a good life, stable homes or a home, period.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.