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Little Family

Book by Ishmael Beah · 4 quotes · Poverty, Caring, Dishonesty

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“They always shared equally, even if all they had was a handful of nuts or a piece of fruit. Today she had brought back fried fish and stewed onions with bread and other things that you would not put together if you had the luxury of considering the pleasure of the mouth.”

Family Poverty Caring Sharing

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“Poverty has a great appetite for eating one’s dignity, but Elimane was one of those people who fought to keep his, even when that was the only battle he was winning.”

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“The traders standing nearby, or really most anyone doing just well enough to pay for the services of people like him, needed to be reassured that those they were considering hiring were in a state of sufficient wretchedness that they could be paid as little as possible for their labor, and never succeed enough to pull themselves up from that state. Thus, the boss men reassured themselves of their own importance. Pull-down-and-keep-down syndrome was how Elimane thought of it.”

Poverty Dishonesty Traders Syndrome

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“Those who searched the day for something to eat were not interested in documents, sensitive or not.”

Poverty Documents

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