Carlos Mencia Quotes

I come from a poor family.

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

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

I was poor my whole life.

I've been poor most of my life.

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

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

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

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

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I grew up poor.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

My parents didn't have any money.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Poverty is no disgrace, but it's no honor either.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I grew up in a family struggling for work.