Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

People don't have fortunes left them - nowadays; men have to work, and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world....

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you're fat.

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 immi…

I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River', or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I wished I had a name that blended in …