Kamaru Usman Quotes

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

My parents did not come to the U.S. with much; they had a lot of hardship.

I was working maybe four different jobs just to make ends meet. I was really broke. I could barely pay rent. I didn't have a car. I was riding my bike from one job to another and then to audition in between.

My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

I come from a poor family.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.