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

— Chely Wright

Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.

— Loretta Lynn

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there…

— William Gibson

On both sides of my family, my grandparents grew up in total poverty and came to California during the Great Depression. The only way…

— Katie Hill

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected…

— Viola Davis

I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

— Dickey Betts

Everyone was poor. We were satisfied with a life that was simple and humble. We were a peaceful, open people.

— Nadia Murad

We didn't know we were poor because that's how everyone around us lived.

— Eric Adams

When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white…

— Angie Thomas

... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

I was raised in the south with my grandparents and in New York with my mom and Diddy. And that created a balance for…

— Quincy Brown

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two…

— Sam Trammell