M.I.A. Quotes

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Money can't buy poverty.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

When people listen to Jay-Z, they're working all day or trying to work and pay their bills, and what they hear is someone who's free. Who doesn't have to worry about the electricity. But all we're taught is that those who are rich deserve to be rich because they worked harder than the rest of us, or they're smarter.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

I've never had money before in my life. Ever. Never, ever.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

We've all got to get away from this idea that the big money's still around.

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

I'm painfully middle class.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.