"It's such a Bore Being always Poor." — Langston Hughes

"It's such a Bore Being always Poor."

— Langston Hughes

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144 Quotes by Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes has 144 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody…
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white…
In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when…
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
I will not take "but" for an answer.
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art…
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone,…
It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I…

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More Always Poor Quotes

This quote is filed under Always Poor Quotes, one of 8 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so,… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who… — Margaret Drabble
Whoever desires is always poor. — Claudius Claudianus
The covetous man is always poor. — Claudius Claudianus
Avarice is always poor. — Samuel Johnson

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