Kanye West Quotes

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

Whenever I see Michael Jordan I'm still blown away because he was such a hero of mine growing up.

The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of these families reported zero wealth or negative net worth, and a significant fraction of those said they were "underwater" on their home mortgages, owing more than the value of the home. This $11,000 average is 50 percent lower than the average wealth of the lower half of families in 1989, adjusted for inflation.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.

I do think that it is no surprise that, economically, America is in trouble. There's been a lot of trouble out there. More and more women have found themselves doing phone sex and things like that, to help pay bills, so that they could be two-income households. They can do these short-term jobs and still pick up their kids at school, at the end of the day, and drop them off in the morning. I find it fascinating. I'm not one to judge the people in that situation, nor would I really want to.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Having money isn't everything, not having it is.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Complaint is poverty.

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

Economy, the poor man's mint.

If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.

I remember when I couldn't afford to eat like this. It was ramen noodles and the San Francisco Treat [Rice-A-Roni]. Dessert? Get you a honey bun and put a slice of cheese on it. Put it in the microwave for 45 seconds and you had the gift of a lifetime.