Lil Durk Quotes

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I didn't have a good childhood growing up.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I had a very rough upbringing.

I didn't really have the most healthy of upbringings.

I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss.

Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.

I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

I definitely didn't have a happy childhood.

Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

Trouble was almost inevitable. I grew up with so many at-risk kids. Kids had things go wrong.

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.

I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and her running downstairs to go after it. I have no memory before that. I was 4. My father had a lot of girlfriends and my mother had a lot of boyfriends.