I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

-Feiffer,Jules
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We donot deridethe fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

-Jordan,June
  'Black Studies: Bringing Back the Person', in the Evergreen Review, Oct.