Lil Durk Quotes

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

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

Where I grew up, there were times when we didn't have anything to eat.

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work.

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

I've lived in poverty.

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

I would take vouchers, do sums in my head just to get some eggs and bread or a tin of cheap Irish stew. I'd be starving and want two tins but couldn't afford it. The poorer you are the hungrier you feel.

Moving to Mumbai was difficult, as survival was a major concern. I was not from a very well-to-do family.

Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to be homeless. I know what it's like to have to choose between breaking the law and feeding yourself. I know what it's like to take meals at shelters and at Salvation Army facilities. I know what it's like to beg for money on the streets.