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We are not going to eradicate poverty by bombing people. ("Dear John: A Letter to a Friend Following 9/11")

— Kathleen Alcalá The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing (2007)

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She could drop her shyness the way she dropped it to recite a speech or a poem, then step back into it like a cloak.

When children went every day to school to learn to live in a world that no longer existed.

After all, what is the passing of time but a diamond turned to dust?

This is how they took back the world - step by step, song by song.

In a way, artists are messengers between worlds, bringing ideas and symbols from one to the other.

The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing (2007)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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