1985 — Odie Hawkins, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, Holloway House (1985), →ISBN, page 21:
…She ain't into nothin', with two crumbcrushers and no ambition.
1987 — John White, Billie Holiday: Her Life & Times, Spellmount (1987), →ISBN, page 121:
But Maya Angelou, who came to know Billie in California, only a few months before her death, remembers that at their first meeting Billie declared flatly: 'I can't stand children. The little crumb-crushers eat you out of house and home and never say "Dog, kiss my foot" … I can't stand the little bastards.'