Quotes About Struggle

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I know what poverty is.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

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

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

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

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.

Music has empowered me through poverty, abuse, and mental-health issues.

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

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.