Imogen Cunningham Quotes

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

When people listen to Jay-Z, they're working all day or trying to work and pay their bills, and what they hear is someone who's free. Who doesn't have to worry about the electricity. But all we're taught is that those who are rich deserve to be rich because they worked harder than the rest of us, or they're smarter.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty.

Poor people don’t employ people; only rich people do.

My father grew up with no money. He was raised in one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the U.S. My mother helped him sew labels into his ties. My life has been very comfortable, sure, but they instilled into us the importance of the work ethic.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

There's no future in being poor.

I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't feel less in any way than my more affluent friends from school.

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.

I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.