James Baldwin

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Carpe per diem – seize the check.

If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Money is something you have to make in case you don’t die.

Acting used to be how I paid the rent, but I sold a tequila company for a billion f**king dollars. I don’t need money.

The point is, you can never be too greedy.

If a person gets his attitude towards money straight, it will straighten out almost every other area in his life.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I have never believed that prosperity is bad or something to be shunned.

The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.

I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention.

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

Money gives me the creeps and mildly embarrasses me. I get paid too much anyway.