Keke Palmer Quotes

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices. Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing. I want them to understand that reality is what's relative to you, and that you can make choices that allow you to create a new reality for yourself.

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? … Was it because our predecessors were thick? Does anybody really think that they didn't get what we had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? Of course not. It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand.

There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university.

Both my parents were far smarter than the opportunities they had.

I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.

More often than not, people who are poor... are right where they should be.

I am not joking when I state that I remained uneducated because I could not afford education.

I had never gone to college. I was not from a politically connected family. I had no money of my own. Who is going to do business with you?

Kids who are middle class, socioeconomically, are surrounded by mentors. They have coaches, teachers, they have family friends, their parents have friends. They might have opportunities, they might have jobs that allow them to experience things that kids in poverty often don't have. Sometimes they come from dysfunctional families. And when you come from a family where money's a real challenge, then it might not be a priority to get you into a summer internship.

There are people in America who are absolutely desperate right now, who have no means to support their families, who have no opportunities to better themselves or their education - and they're not that different from the farmers and working-class people that I visited when I went to Kenya with Oxfam.

Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It’s a lack of resources.

When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it's a very vicious cycle.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America? What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity?

I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.