Eminem Quotes

The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.

You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

We didn't always have what we wanted or needed, we had to struggle. That is why I also thank God for my mum - she is the one who worked hard to pay for my first football boots.

My mother really struggled when we were young. She was on food stamps and welfare. Looking back, I know we didn't have a lot, but I never felt I was at a loss for anything.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

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

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.

I've always been the person to look at any turmoil as temporary. I recall times where my mom was working five and six jobs, and there's still no food in the house.

I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers.

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

My mom is a beautiful, amazing woman. We didn't have a ton of money growing up, and even, at one point, we were living on food stamps. But my mom still managed to make sure we ate healthy and were always fed nutritious meals!

We lived in a hotel for many years as we struggled financially, but I always loved football.

In Brazil, I didn't have it easy growing up.

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.

Growing up in Orangeburg, I didn't know that I lived in the 'corridor of shame.' I was the son of a single mom who learned to read from comic books. My grandparents helped raise me.

I was just a toddler when my dad died in a car crash. With my mum, Eunice, being a young widow with a large family, she really struggled money-wise.

Thanks to my mother, I graduated. But then we lost everything, we were homeless.

My family was poor. My father was in the police force and was drawing a small salary. Because of that I could not study.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.