"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
— Poverty

January 1, 1970

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James Baldwin "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem" in Esquire (July 1960); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)