Derrick Rose Quotes

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

I've lived in poverty.

I was poor my whole life.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

I know what poverty is.

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

I didn't have life that good coming up. I wasn't born with a lot of money. We weren't dirt poor, but we weren't rich. All I knew was struggle.

My family were really poor.

I've been poor most of my life.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

I come from a poor family.

I grew up poor.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.