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 felt even if it killed me.
I tasted the bread and wine of equality. - Anzia Yezierska
I tasted the bread and wine of equality.
- Anzia Yezierska
If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being. - Anzia Yezierska
If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.
Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher. - Anzia Yezierska
Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.
As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of underst… - Anzia Yezierska
As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of underst…
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… - Anzia Yezierska
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…
The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all. - Anzia Yezierska
The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
The world is a wheel always turning. - Anzia Yezierska
The world is a wheel always turning.
I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in. - Anzia Yezierska
I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. - Anzia Yezierska
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.
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