It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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.
The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.
My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.