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)


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

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

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

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