Famous quotes containing the words childhood and/or poverty:
“and I really hope no white person ever has cause to write about me
because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and
they’ll
probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that
all the while I was quite happy.”
—Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)
“Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)