Greil Marcus Quotes

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

Money is a never-ending problem.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact—constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

Economics should not drive you out of the community.

Unemployment, low wages, and poverty discourage family formation and erode family stability, making it less likely that individuals will marry in the first place and more likely that their marriages will dissolve.

We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

I don't come from a lot of money.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

We are not strangers to poverty in New Mexico.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I love reading books that can break my heart.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.