Jayson Tatum Quotes

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.

I didn't have life that good coming up. I wasn't born with a lot of money. We weren't dirt poor, but we weren't rich. All I knew was struggle.

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

My mother graduated from high school in 1969, and on January 3, 1971, she gave birth to me. She was married later that year, but by the time I was 10, she was a divorced single mother of two young boys. To make ends meet, we moved in with my grandparents, who were also housing two of my mother's siblings and their kids.

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.

It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

I was one of six kids in a single-parent household.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad a little later.

We weren't the most fortunate family growing up.

I was a kid growing up in Houston, didn't have a lot - three younger brothers, a single mom. It was tough.

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

My father left the family right after I was born, so my mother was working every single day to support me and my brothers.

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.