I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.
I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.
I've always found poverty a source of strength.
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
I will always think about uplifting the lives of the poor because I know what they feel. I have not heard about poverty; I have not read about poverty: I have experienced poverty.
If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers.