“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”

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

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(1924-1987) writer from the United States 1924–1987

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