The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to. It chips away a person's dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be.
Rick BraggThis is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.
Rick BraggIt is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.
Rick BraggI believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.
Rick Bragg