I'd never been to school before, my mum and dad were too poor to send me, so this made me very happy.
"I wanted to study medicine," she said, "but no school in New York would admit a woman, and my family was too poor to send me away to study".
The flip scenario, which is simply not part of the picture, would be if I were poor and had a lengthy enough history of being poor to earn me Medicaid.
"I dropped out of school in the third grade because my father did not have a job and my family was too poor to send me to school.
"I've had people say, 'Your poor family' to me," she said.
In Los Angeles and New York, the poor reach to me with bleary eyes and all I can do is sigh".
Romero's calls to end the violence afflicting his nation and his solidarity with El Salvador's poor appealed to me as a college student in the late 1970s.
Why? Once you have your answer, the next question to ask yourself: "What does being rich or poor mean to me?" This will help you to define what true wealth means to you.
"Watch the prices go up and watch how, all of a sudden, I'm too poor to look like me," she spits, after imitating how white people rave about shea butter, Bantu knots, hoop earrings and other facets of the culture.
That's me — too poor to pay for college, too rich for scholarships and financial aid.
