Alice Childress famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Alice Childress

#Thinking #Generations #Poverty
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.
-- Alice Childress

#Life Is Short #Way #Be Kind
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.
-- Alice Childress

#Patterns #Action #Problem
writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
-- Alice Childress

#Writing #Light #Wind
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!
-- Alice Childress

#Thinking #Ideas #Accomplishment
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
-- Alice Childress

#Prejudice #Ugly #Language
I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.
-- Alice Childress

#Jobs #Loneliness #Lonesome
I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.
-- Alice Childress

#Cancer #Believe #Racism
your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.
-- Alice Childress

#Soul #Your Soul
Thoughts can hurt like real pain.
-- Alice Childress

#Hurt #Pain #Real
I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
-- Alice Childress

#Anger #Mad #Water
And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.
-- Alice Childress

#Black #Events #Sides
It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
-- Alice Childress

#Fighting #Men #Kind
Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
-- Alice Childress

#Heart #Soul #Gone
Some truth has no nourishment in it.
-- Alice Childress

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

#Looks #Next #Look Up
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.
-- Alice Childress

#Jobs #And Love #Done
I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.
-- Alice Childress

#Kindness #Thinking #Needs
Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
-- Alice Childress

#Believe #Truth Is
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.
-- Alice Childress

#Feet #Forever #Want
"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.
-- Alice Childress

#Inspirational #Good Day
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.
-- Alice Childress

#Educational #Patterns #Snowflake

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