Killer Mike Quotes

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

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

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.

I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.

I think that's always something when you're working class, when you're aware of things that you haven't had; there are moments when you question yourself, definitely.

I come from a very working-class background.

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

I come from a very working-class background.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that was Ladies Night, and my mom could get in for free.

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

In the neighborhood where I grew up, it was a rough neighborhood - well, not rough, but it certainly wasn't upper class or anything. But I remember hearing things like, 'The little man just can't get ahead.' And if you start to believe that, then you know what? You don't get ahead.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.

I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

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 grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.