Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Money can't buy poverty.

I come from a poor family.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.