Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.

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

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're really hard-working people that want to have a better life. And I saw the struggle that exists there.

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

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.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

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

Growing up in New Orleans and just being in a poverty-stricken neighborhood gave me that same fire that Eazy had to separate himself from what could have ended up being such a bad situation.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Now we've got lots of freedom and no money.

Having wealth and prestige by being a court official comes at a cost. Being poor and having low social status give people freedom.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.

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

Hip-hop has always been speaking about the way your brain is manipulated by stress and struggle because hip-hop is borne from struggle.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

The arts was always a place where I could be present.