Langston Hughes Quotes

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

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

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

My parents didn't have any money.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

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 grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

I've been poor most of my life.

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

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

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.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

I have no regrets about being poor.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I didn't have money growing up.

I was poor my whole life.

My parents weren't rich at all.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.