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

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

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.

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

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 hole at the bottom.

In America, money takes the place of God.

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