Vince Staples Quotes

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

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.'

Poverty affects people of all races.

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

The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you know, capitalism is operated by extracting money, not so much directly being paid.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

There are people with no high school education who are poor. but there are also university graduates on food bank lines. There are people who are poor because they have made bad choices, gotten addicted to drugs, burned bridges with friends and family — and then there are people who have never taken a drug in their lives, who have huge social networks, and who still can’t make ends meet.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

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

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

In America, we are living in a country where the deep economic problems have not been solved and arguably, in many cases, haven't been addressed.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it's taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.