Pam Grier Quotes

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

I grew up poor.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

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 weren't the most fortunate family growing up.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

I come from a poor family.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

I grew up with pretty much nothing - in the hood, the ghetto - whatever you want to call it.

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

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

I was not somebody who watched a lot of films. We couldn't afford to. We came from struggling family background.

My family were really poor.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

I was poor my whole life.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.