Alice Childress

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

“Sound like a promise that can never happen.”

— Alice Childress

“That's sin, [...] leavin' on a lie.”

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

— Alice Childress

“Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'.”

— Alice Childress

Thoughts can hurt like real pain.

— Alice Childress

“Gawd might forgive but people never will.”

— Alice Childress

“A woman need a man to claim, even if it's a dead one.”

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

— Alice Childress

“Two things a man can give the woman he loves...his name and his protection...”

— Alice Childress

“But if we grow stronger...and rise higher than what's pullin' us down...Yes, rise higher than dirt...that fifty pound weight will lift and…

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are…

— Alice Childress

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and…

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

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

— Alice Childress

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to…

— Alice Childress