A choice: poverty or prosperity 

"I hate poverty. poverty is more of a choice than anything else, and i can change that (poverty). it depends upon how hard i want to work, and i decide that i would change it,"

 -Dr, Ben Carson 

reflection: this quote means that poverty is just a choice because you can change it , you can change to move on , to keep going to  be better it just depends on how hard you work and how much you want that to achieve to be successful in life to change to make a change and i'm also agree with the quote because you can do whatever you want , you can be whatever you want just work really hard make some changes in your life succeed , improve, be a better person and decide what do you want to be in life who you want to be and if you born poor it's not your mistake but if you died poor it is because you had the chance to fix it to change it , to change your life , to make it better everything that you do , your choices is how ever you are going to be.