Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Quotes

I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?

Poverty is an open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society.

Poverty abides no line drawn by color or culture.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

I think one of the most important American films is 'Jackie Brown,' which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the '90s.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

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

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.