Langston Hughes Quotes about Giving

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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.

Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.

Langston Hughes

Summer, Winter, Giving

Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.109, University of Missouri Press

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

Langston Hughes

People, Giving, Musician

Langston Hughes, Steven C. Tracy (2001). “Works for Children and Young Adults: Biographies”, p.197, University of Missouri Press

Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.

Langston Hughes

Giving, Honor, Blind

Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.77, University of Missouri Press