Rex Ogle Quotes

I don't know why, but I don't trust the word free anymore. Lunch here is supposed to be free, but it feels like it costs me a lot.

No child should feel alone. Or ashamed. Or worthless. They need to know that their circumstances are not their fault.

These are my words! They matter! Hit me all you want. I will write. These are my words. They do matter. And she did hit me, all she wanted. But I wrote. And I still write. I will always write. No one can stop me from writing. My words are mine, with a voice given to me by my abuela.

She may forget. And one day, I may forget too. But for now, the memories are captured, like insects in amber, ready to survive for millions of years. My memories...are written in words and verses and fragments in this book, unable to be unwritten. And if it is forgotten, it can always be read again.

On the back, it has the address, and says, free lunch! A chill runs up my spine. I don’t know why, but I don’t trust the word free anymore. Lunch here is supposed to be free, but it feels like it costs me a lot.

Right now in the United States, 43.1 million are children under the age of eighteen. According to the US Census Bureau, people under the age of eighteen have a higher poverty rate that those in any other age group. That's nearly 1 out of 5 children in America are living in a state of poverty.

If God didn't want me sitting by myself, I wouldn't be sitting by myself. I mean they say God is all powerful. So if I'm sitting by myself, then its cause God wants me to sit by myself. Which is pretty awful if you think about it, cause no kid should have to feel alone. And if God really dose control everything then that means that God wants me to be poor and not be on the football team. It also means God lets people go without meals and get sick and get punched around. And of God was a good guy, he wouldn't let that stuff happen right?

People often fear what they do not understand. And people do not understand me.

You see, Honest Reader, sometimes when a person is faced with a difficult truth, it's easier just to ignore it. But the truth is like the sun, one cannot hide from it for long.

Animals and trees are lovely. Humans? Not so much.

moans.

Sometimes you have to focus on what you have, rather than what you don't.

If you say so scared-erella

Being poor in this country is like--like starving at an all-you-can-eat buffet. You can see all of this food piled high, but you can't have any of it. It's just out of reach. Like everything else. Jobs. Houses. The things you see in TV commercials. It's all a pipe dream for people like us. It's all window-shopping. The grocery stores, the malls, the car lots everywhere. It's all luxury, and people don't realize how lucky they are if they can afford any of it. We know, because we can't have any of it. No matter how hard we work, we'll never have money like the people at the top. We work just as hard as they do. Harder sometimes. But we'll never make the money they make. The system is broke.