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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
I grew up in poverty and my mother had to sacrifice a lot for us to eat and get an education - just imagine in a house where we were more than six children! But hard work and dedication is what it took for me to be here today.
I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.
The way I live now is that I only write, which means that I'm very poor but very happy. Everything in my life is the way I want it to be.
It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.