Maiwenn Quotes

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.

My people are still poor. They're still working class. All of the characters that I write about are inspired by the community that I'm from.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

I don't come from money.

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.

I come from the lower middle class, originally. We didn't have anything.

I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

My mum and dad came from lower-working-class Glasgow, which was tough. Literally, if you see a cat there with a tail, it's a tourist.

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

I come from a humble background, where my family was struggling to be called middle class.

I grew up working class in Atlanta.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

Because we were all from Liverpool, we favored people who were street people.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

I live in a working-class community that is struggling at the poverty line, where people who work full-time jobs still at my corner bodega use food stamps. Do you think they care what the stock market's doing today or what the GDP number is? No.

In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.

I'm from the street. We all know that.

When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school.

I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.