Letitia James Quotes

I wasn't a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

I don't come from a privileged background.

I wasn't exactly born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

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

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

When a family is poor, everyone is poor, and there is huge solidarity. People will take a bullet for you. But when one makes it, it is like you owe everyone.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

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

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

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

His position makes him one of the richest men in the world coming from one of the poorest countries of the world.