Viola Davis Quotes

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.

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

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

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

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

In the neighborhood where I grew up, it was a rough neighborhood - well, not rough, but it certainly wasn't upper class or anything. But I remember hearing things like, 'The little man just can't get ahead.' And if you start to believe that, then you know what? You don't get ahead.

It has been tough when I have been with the national team and we have gone to play in some of the poorer areas in Brazil. You see people come and watch us train or play a match, and then you know some of them are going home with no food on the plate.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

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.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

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