Tag Archives: Poor

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles – poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
(Zhang Ziyi – Chinese Actress)
09-Feb-1979 :

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn’t pay the rent.
(Philip Zimbardo – American Psychologist)
23-Mar-1933 :

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.
(Philip Zimbardo – American Psychologist)
23-Mar-1933 :

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
(Zinedine Zidane – French Athlete)
23-Jun-1972 :

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
(Muhammad Yunus – Economist)
28-Jun-1940 :