
Childhood is the first thing that poverty takes away from a child. And I know this firsthand because I was one of the children who was one of the one in six. I was the one in seventeen million. I spent most of my childhood being raised in condemned buildings infested with rats. I was the child that went to bed hungry every single night. It encouraged me to steal food, it encouraged me to jump in dumpsters that were infested with maggots just to find food. It even encouraged me to befriend people who had mothers who cooked three meals a day, so I could go over and hopefully enjoy a hot meal. I believe the desperation of hunger fills a child with so much shame and they don't have the voice to say "help". The great Muhammad Ali once said - "service is the price that you pay for taking up space on this earth". I truly believe in our lifetime, we can see the eradication of hunger in children. For me, it is not what I have, but what I do, that is my kingdom. I'm constantly motivated by the scared little hungry girl in pig-tails that lives deep inside me that stole the ice cream from the corner store but now longs to make a difference in child hunger across America. - Viola Davis: Actress | Academy Award® Nominee
Childhood is the first thing that poverty takes away from a child. And I know this firsthand because I was one of the children who was one of the one in six. I was the one in seventeen million. I spent most of my childhood being raised in condemned buildings infested with rats. I was the child that went to bed hungry every single night. It encouraged me to steal food, it encouraged me to jump in dumpsters that were infested with maggots just to find food. It even encouraged me to befriend people who had mothers who cooked three meals a day, so I could go over and hopefully enjoy a hot meal. I believe the desperation of hunger fills a child with so much shame and they don't have the voice to say "help". The great Muhammad Ali once said - "service is the price that you pay for taking up space on this earth". I truly believe in our lifetime, we can see the eradication of hunger in children. For me, it is not what I have, but what I do, that is my kingdom. I'm constantly motivated by the scared little hungry girl in pig-tails that lives deep inside me that stole the ice cream from the corner store but now longs to make a difference in child hunger across America. - Viola Davis: Actress | Academy Award® Nominee
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