Lonesome Quotes by Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

“That's sin, [...] leavin' on a lie.”

— Alice Childress

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin'…

— Alice Childress

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.

— Alice Childress

“Sound like a promise that can never happen.”

— Alice Childress

“One day I almost said it . . . after goin over the words in my mind, "Benjie, the greatest thing in the world…

— Alice Childress

“Schoolteachers can be some hard-eyed people, with talkin eyes; they mouth sayin one thing and them eyes be screamin another.”

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special…

— Alice Childress

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress