Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.
I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.
So, Slade, the swearing, the poor english and everything else is just a facade. You're really quite a deep and intelligent man, aren't you?
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.
The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.
John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.
Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.
Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
Poor presentation can make great art look terrible. Good presentation can make terrible art look great.
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.
When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
The discipline, particularly in these urban schools for the poor, it's not controlled by the administration - they're controlled by the police. This is an expression of a racist logic that has now seeped directly into schools.
The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.
