Master P Quotes

When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

I grew up poor. The fact that I had to struggle to succeed, that wasn't a big deal to me. I'd struggled my whole life.

From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that.

Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

I like struggle.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

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

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

I honestly think part of the appeal of 'Rumours' was that it was sort of heroic. We managed to push through in the face of so much personal adversity.

When I left school - or, rather, when I was expelled from school for hitting a kid who had disrespected a teacher - I had nothing, with nowhere to go. Where I'm from, it really means that. Now my family are millionaires. I never dreamed this would be possible.

'Seat at the Table' has expressed real adversity, struggle, and also triumph and joy.

When you experience lows like I have it just makes you hungry to go and succeed even more, and make sure days like that don't happen as much as they have done.

It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.

I feel like I've been proving people wrong all my life.

There are people who are hating you more because of where you are coming from. People like the 'he comes from nothing and made it to F1' story. I know that, but I just do my thing; I focus on my job.

I see I'm changing the game and opening doors for others, from my beginning from the east end of London. It's not a sob story; it made me the person I am today. It's seeing kids from any area or background you're from. There's a chance; you can make it.

I think I created my own narrative, being a guy who kind of got chewed up and put through the grinder and coming out on top.