Dizzee Rascal Quotes

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

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

I come from nothing. I come from sleeping in the kitchen with my family with the oven open to keep us warm during winter, you know? When you come from that background, all this extra stuff is just... extra stuff, you know?

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

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I come from a poor family.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

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.

Every step of the way, life was hard. I was supposed to be a statistic.

When you grow up on the other side of the tracks, you're used to taking a few bumps.

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're really hard-working people that want to have a better life. And I saw the struggle that exists there.

I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

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.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

Growing up in New Orleans and just being in a poverty-stricken neighborhood gave me that same fire that Eazy had to separate himself from what could have ended up being such a bad situation.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.

When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.