Best 26 quotes of Alice Childress on MyQuotes

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .

Thoughts can hurt like real pain.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

dear little baby of the folks I work for, I got a present for you .. my whole damn life! I'm handin' it over to you & your ma & pa. if you got no money to pay, I wanna stay anyhow, my pleasure is to wait on you forever. to hell with my children & hooray for you!.. you stayin' up all night fixin' up Character Parts for me! givin' 'em what you call dignity! dignity! you know what your dignity is? a black straw hat with a flower stickin' up in front, hands folded cross my stomach, sayin' the same damn fool things .. only nice & easy & proper!" --trouble in mind (1955)