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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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Poetry is the human soul entire Squeezed like a lemon or a lime, Drop by drop into atomic words". ― Langston Hughes
I will not take ‘but’ for an answer. ― Langston Hughes
The criminal justice system punishes people for their poverty. ― Kamala Harris
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. — Mae West
Because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet. ― Langston Hughes
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. ― Mother Teresa
I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books — where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas. ― 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
