Tupac Shakur Quotes

We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we'd pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone, sometimes the gas went off.

None of us want to ever face a choice between putting food on the table or paying rent.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

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

I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.

My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point - because of the injury, he couldn't walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

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.

When I first came to Seoul to start model work, I felt bad asking for financial support from my parents, so I lived in the sauna for about six months.

I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

After graduating from high school, even though I was working, I didn't have enough money to pay rent, so I stayed with my Nana.