Llama and Lamb

“I would rather be in a Kenyan slum then in hotel in transient hotel in New York City.”

“I would say that being poor in the U.S. is a cross between being poor in Japan and being poor in Mexico, because there is a combination of shame and anger.”

“In America we feel entitled to be rich and if we are not rich we feel outraged against everyone including ourselves.”

-William Vollmann

Social critic and author William Volllmann traveled the world asking one question of the people he met who lived in poverty: Why are you poor? Some of the answers he received were expected, others were not. In the end, Vollmann doesn’t pass judgment but passes on what he discovered. (Diane Rehm Show)

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