Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand….

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams..

In America, money takes the place of God..

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread..

The real thing creates its own poetry..

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched b….

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I….

I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that ….

Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted..

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hol….

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse..

At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I….

This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life ….

I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows how hard I tried to civilize her so as n….

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts..

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by h….

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts..

I tasted the bread and wine of equality..

If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being..

The world is a wheel always turning..