"There is something about poverty that smells like……" — Zora Neale Hurston

"There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes."

Zora Neale Hurston

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