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“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.”

Knows Children Made Poverty Media Grew Grew Up Neighborhood Deprived

Author:Ving Rhames

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.”

Kids Jobs Young House Poor Levels Poverty Grew Grew Up Modest

Author:Chely Wright

“I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.”

Years Poverty Grew Grew Up Aids Feds

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life.”

Process Wealth White Class Poverty Middle Grew Higher Shadow Dear Clouds Rising Middle Class Broads Valleys Perpetual Holding On Rising Up Ledges Dear Life

Book:Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation

Source: Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation

“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.”

Want Kind Stories Poor Poverty Struggle Seeing Conditions Grew Mom Grew Up My Family Moved My Mom Triumph Motivated Philippines Living Conditions Inspiring 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.”

People Stills Father Poor Poverty Missing Changed Grew Grew Up Poor People Things Change Diplomats Somalia

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.”

Individual Poverty Environment Grew Grew Up Intention Neighborhood Wrong Things Detours

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."”

Littles Today Sides Poor Poverty Growing Up Growing Grew Terrible Grew Up Areas Hunger East Detroit Orphan Scarcity Orphanage East Side Poor Me

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments as the decades went by. They produced the wealth and rising income that resulted in the emergence of a phenomenon completely new to human history: a self-supporting and educated middle class that grew more and more as they lower classes bettered their economic well-being.”

“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.”

Want Looks Poverty Fashion Grew Birth Grew Up Hood

Author:ASAP Rocky

“Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'”

Source: Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth

“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.”

Home Kids Beautiful Mother White Poverty Grew Grew Up Parks Trash Mobile Playgrounds White Trash Loving 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.”

“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.”

People Thinking Want Persons Made Character Lines Poverty College Grew Grew Up Built Stronger Average Grades Better 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.”

“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.”

Said Stills Hard Secret Poverty Hard Work Grew Grew Up Harder Deeper Hearing Debt Finding Yourself Sinking Get Ahead Secret To Success Tedium

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.”

Found Lost Poverty Sea Grew Grew Up Luxury Gray Unbearable Sumptuous

Book:Lyrical and Critical Essays

Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays

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