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But was that why Negroes were poor, because they were dancers, jazzers, clowns? . . . The other way round would be better: dancers because of their poverty; singers because they suffered; laughing all the time because they must forget.... It’s more like that, thought Sandy. ― Langston Hughes,
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Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. ― Langston Hughes
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind— And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind. Then let us hurry, comrades, The road to find. ― Langston Hughes
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. — Mae West
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
God in his infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise- So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise. ― Langston Hughes
This, the dream and the dreamer, wandering in the desert from Hopkinsville to Vienna in love with a streetwalker named Music.… ― Langston Hughes
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
