Age Quote by Oprah Winfrey

As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents…

— Kelly Price

I once was poor myself. I worked to get where I am today and I've worked hard to spend $100,000 a year on my…

— Liberace

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

— Steve Aoki

Poverty took me from being the girl who was always the lead in the school play, to a woman who can't open her own…

— Jack Monroe

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is…

— Ben Okri

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as…

— Halle Berry

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

— Tracy Morgan

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning…

— Ricky Gervais

You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.

— Al Koran

I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused…

— Anna Nicole Smith

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

— will.i.am

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life,…

— Coretta Scott King