I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was very poor when I was young.
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
Though I be poor, I'm honest.
I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
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. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.