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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

I know a lot of people who are weak, who are in a perpetual cycle of poverty and being locked up. There are guys from my neighborhood who are in jail or who are dead. It does take a certain strength to know your environment and say, 'I can grow beyond it.'

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.