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Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

I come from a poor family.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.