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