Living Below the Poverty Line Quotes

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

Poverty makes you work really hard.

I know what poverty is.

My family were really poor.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

I have no regrets about being poor.

I've lived in poverty.

I've been poor most of my life.

Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so I've seen and interacted with abject poverty. But I also know that because of that, poverty is not the definition of the people that live there.