Lil Wayne Quotes

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

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.'

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

My parents didn't have any money.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.