Sandra Cisneros Poor Quotations

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

It's what's available to the poor communities. They do buy healthy stuff, you know, but the lettuce is usually iceberg lettuce and to get any taste, they have to use all that ranch dressing.

The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole book called A Taco Testimony, and though the title sounds light, it's a heavy book. It's about being working class and what kind of food is available to you that's cheap.

I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food

If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city are in the poorest neighborhoods, where people don't have cars.

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.