There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.