Jay Electronica Quotes

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

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've been homeless on a few occasions.

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

I realized eventually that when I ran out of places to stay and found myself on the D train and in Central Park, I was actually homeless.

I'm one of those people when I see a homeless person on the street, I want to know their story. There's a reason they got there.

To be honest, busking was a massive part of becoming aware of homelessness. I used to run into a lot of 'Big Issue' sellers and a lot of people on the street. It really opened my eyes to the kind of life that they live and the options that are open for them - or not, actually.

It's one of these baffling things about the world we live in that there is still homelessness, and it's good that there are charities like Social Bite that go all out to help and make a difference.

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

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

Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

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.

We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.

One of my friends is Snake from Skid Row.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

We cannot have homeless people in our society. It's just wrong.

There are no "points of light" for those who sleep on grates and park benches.

Men who were heads of families wandering the streets, eating from garbage cans