Jay Electronica Quotes

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody.

I worked out; I moved 16 times from the age of 19, just hopping about from different flats, because I couldn't always afford to stay.

I was living in my van, playing on the street for almost two years.

I lived in the streets for three years when I was a kid, and every day, I didn't know where my next meal would come from.

I lived on the street myself.

I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would stop and look into the trash cans, and if there was a half a sandwich, I would take that sandwich and eat it. It was just a matter of survival. I didn't think much of it, but it was just the way things were.

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.

When I arrived in New York, I was homeless with 400 bucks in my pocket.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

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

I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

There are just way too many people suffering out there.

Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.

I come from nothing.

For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.

I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.