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

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

The world is a wheel always turning.

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 by it.

Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.

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 her mother.

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