Oscar Wilde Quotes

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

I come from a poor family.

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.

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I wasn't a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

Poor people always lose in struggles.

I don't come from a privileged background.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

I grew up poor.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

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

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

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

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.