“I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.” KnowsChildrenMadePovertyMediaGrewGrew UpNeighborhoodDeprived Author:Ving Rhames
“I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.” KidsJobsYoungHousePoorLevelsPovertyGrewGrew UpModest Author:Chely Wright
“I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.” YearsPovertyGrewGrew UpAidsFeds Author:Emmanuel Jal
“My family moved to the Philippines when I was 14. While living there, I learned that my mom grew up very poor. Seeing that kind of abject poverty firsthand during my travels deeply shaped my life. Seeing those living conditions motivated me to want to tell inspiring stories of struggle and triumph.” WantKindStoriesPoorPovertyStruggleSeeingConditionsGrewMomGrew UpMy FamilyMovedMy MomTriumphMotivatedPhilippinesLiving ConditionsInspiring Stories Author:Manny Pacquiao
“We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.” PeopleStillsFatherPoorPovertyMissingChangedGrewGrew UpPoor PeopleThings ChangeDiplomatsSomalia Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.” IndividualPovertyEnvironmentGrewGrew UpIntentionNeighborhoodWrong ThingsDetours Author:Kevin Gates
“I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. Even growing up in an orphanage, I never woke up saying, "I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me."” LittlesTodaySidesPoorPovertyGrowing UpGrowingGrewTerribleGrew UpAreasHungerEastDetroitOrphanScarcityOrphanageEast SidePoor Me Author:Wayne Dyer
“I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.” WantLooksPovertyFashionGrewBirthGrew UpHood Author:ASAP Rocky
“I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a loving mother, there were kids everywhere, there was a playground in the center, I just grew up in poverty.” HomeKidsBeautifulMotherWhitePovertyGrewGrew UpParksTrashMobilePlaygroundsWhite TrashLoving Mother Author:Taryn Manning
“My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.” KindPersonsMadeCountryEnoughSchoolLastsUsedMotherFatherLostDifferencesPayClassPovertyMinutesCollegeGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAreasLocalsSuitsTeenagerFactoriesInfantScholarshipNo MoneyLast MinuteTuitionGoing To CollegeKind PersonHigh School Class Author:Samuel Alito
“I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.” PeopleThinkingWantPersonsMadeCharacterLinesPovertyCollegeGrewGrew UpBuiltStrongerAverageGradesBetter Person Author:Justin Bieber
“I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they can’t read or write. How did Malcolm X radicalize his consciousness? He did it through books. If you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a class that can engage in revolutionary resistance.” PeopleIfsWritingBookFactsKidsReadingBlackPoorConsciousnessClassPovertyGroupsGrewGrew UpCriticalAccessResistanceRevolutionaryMidstBlack PeopleEducateWorking ClassReading And Writing Author:Bell Hooks
“I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.” SaidStillsHardSecretPovertyHard WorkGrewGrew UpHarderDeeperHearingDebtFinding YourselfSinkingGet AheadSecret To SuccessTedium Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.” FoundLostPovertySeaGrewGrew UpLuxuryGrayUnbearableSumptuous Book:Lyrical and Critical Essays Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays