Jidenna Quotes

I come from the lower middle class, originally. We didn't have anything.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

I don't come from money.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

Mum obviously did not earn much money to feed me and my siblings. She worked hard to raise us, but there was always something missing.

I've been poor most of my life.

I didn't have much but my mum and grandma gave me as much as they could, but we weren't a rich family and we had to work hard for what we got.

I know what hard times are like. I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I've had struggles.

My parents weren't rich at all.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

I grew up poor.