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

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

Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

- Anzia Yezierska

The world is a wheel always turning.

- Anzia Yezierska

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

- Anzia Yezierska

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

- Anzia Yezierska

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

- 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.

- Anzia Yezierska

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

- Anzia Yezierska