"With poverty everything becomes frightful."

-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Poverty Quotes

“I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.”
“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.”

Source : Accepting Edward MacDowell Medal, September 8, 1979.
“Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.”

Source : "7 Ways To Stand Up To Racism", www.oprah.com. May 2017.
“But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart!”
“It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up.”
“Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.”

Source : Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.221, Macmillan
“I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.”
“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.”

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