Poverty

Poverty is all around us, and it gets more difficult to ignore each time. Black celebrities express their reflections on Poverty.

As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Stevie Wonder

There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes.
Zora Neale Hurston

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk