Rza Quotes

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly brought us up.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

I was 22 when my mother died; my baby sister was 12. We had nothing. We had each other, but we had nothing.

I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.

I'm really grateful for my mom. And my mom always raised me being a single mother. Being a single mother, a lot of stress comes with that. You gotta work, you gotta come home and do everything.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.

When I joined 'Essence,' I was a young, single mother. I was 24. I hadn't gone to college. I wasn't making any money at 'Essence' - what was it, $500 a month - and I was struggling. So I was always looking down the road, always hoping for a better, you know, tomorrow.

My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

People are surprised by the poverty and think that I wasn't cared for. But that wasn't the case - I was deeply loved.

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.

Well, my grandmother, she raised me in public housing.

I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding.

My mom raised six kids on her own.