poor

The trick is not in having come from the poor, although that helps. The trick is never forgetting what it means to be poor, and not wanting others to remain poor. The trick is not in having been the poor boy from Lubao, it is in continuing to feel for the poor of Lubao. The trick is not in having come from a shrimp trader’s family (although how being born to a shrimp trader can possibly qualify as poor only Manny Villar can say), it is in continuing to feel for the vendors who sell pails of shrimp in the bulb-lit caves or wet markets or talipapa of Quinta and elsewhere. - Conrado de Quiros, March 2, 2010