Louie Anderson Quotes

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

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

I was from this small town, and my parents were poor.

I receive food stamps but I have never been on welfare.

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

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.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

I know what it's like to be on public assistance and to be unemployed. And I know what it's like to be evicted.

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

Those of us referred to food banks are the lucky ones with a good doctor or health visitor who knows us well enough to recognise that something has gone seriously wrong.

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.