A Quote by Black Thought

I think poor folks are the only people who cannot afford - financially and otherwise - to be sick.

Black Thought

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Black Thought
American - Musician
Born: October 3, 1975

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Florence Nightingale

I say that is because those are the times where sometimes you feel actually a little bit hurt. Because you feel like saying to these folks, "[Don't] you think if I could do it, I [would] have just done it. Do you think that the only problem is that I don't care enough about the plight of poor people, or gay people, or immigrants, or ...?"