Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean—an ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes at every turn of the road. The hobo never knows what is going to happen the next moment; hence, he lives only in the present moment. He has learned the futility of telic endeavor, and knows the delight of drifting along with the whimsicalities of Chance

~ Jack London

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Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move.

~ Brenna Ehrlich

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Clothes are a homeless man’s home.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.

~ Heather O'neill

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