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发信人: MYID (....yy.......), 信区: Memory
标 题: Not Poor,Just Broke
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2002年09月13日10:20:15 星期五), 站内信件
昨夜先看到zsxdm回复“上海三陪女学生自述”的文章,又找到
原文看了看,我瞬间便想起了几年前阅读过的一篇感人至深的文章,
Dick Gregory的“Not Poor,Just broke”,文中说:“poor is a
state of mind you never grow out of,but being broke is just
a temporary condition.”文中还说:“Home was a place to be
only when all other places were closed. ”
从网上没找到这篇文章,于是我翻开书柜,从一堆笔记中找到
了它,并敲了出来。
Not Poor,Just Broke
Dick Gregory
Like of lot of Negro kids,we never could have made it
without our Momma.When there was no fatback to go with the
beans,no socks to go with the shoes , no hope to go with
tomorrow,she'd smile and say:" We ain't poor,we're just
broke,"poor is a state of mind you never grow out of,but
being broke is just a temporary condition.
......
But Momma figured that some day the Gregory kids were
going to get off North Taylor Street and into a world where
they would have to compete with kids who grew up with
telephones in their house.She dindn't want us to be at
adisadvantage,She couldn't explain that to the social worker.
And she couldn't explain that while she was out spoonfeeding
somebody else'kids,that she could rest her mind by picking
up the telephone and calling us----to find out if we had bread
for our baloney or baloney for our bread,to see if any of us
had gotten run over by the streetcar while we played in the
gutter,to make sure the house hadn't burnt down from the
papers and magazines we stuffed in the stove when the coal
ran out.
But sometimes when she called there would be no answer.
Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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