Community Quote by Wes Moore

I grew up in the ghetto, and the thing is when there were problems, I knew when to get away.

— Michael Pena

When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her…

— Patrisse Cullors

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

— Shane Claiborne

I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a…

— Taryn Manning

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks,…

— Arnold Palmer

I grew up in Brooklyn, in what I now know was poverty. Sharing a tiny bedroom with my two brothers, eating government cheese and…

— Theodore Melfi

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty…

— Wayne Dyer

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to…

— Jim Carrey

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents.…

— Bernard Hill

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

— Taylor Caldwell

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

— Carl Hart

The Bronx, I remember, was a very poor neighborhood, but that was all that immigrants could afford at that time. Life was tough. I…

— Mildred Dresselhaus