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I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.