Quotes by Alice Childress - Page 1

Thoughts can hurt like real pain.
Alice Childress / Playwright
Hurt
Pain
Real
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Some truth has no nourishment in it.
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"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.
Alice Childress / Playwright
Inspirational
Good Day
Old Days
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The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
Alice Childress / Playwright
Black
Pain
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Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.
Alice Childress / Playwright
Educational
Patterns
Snowflake
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Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
Alice Childress / Playwright
Inspirational
Believe
Truth Is
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It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
Alice Childress / Playwright
Men
Fighting
Kind
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I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
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Anger
Mad
Water
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I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.
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Jobs
Loneliness
Lonesome
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Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.
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Feels
Feminist
Should
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writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
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Light
Wind
Writing
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Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.
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Feet
Forever
Sake
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It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.
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Creative
Patterns
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That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.
Alice Childress / Playwright
Look Up
Looks
Next
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Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
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Gone
Heart
Soul
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I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.
Alice Childress / Playwright
Kindness
Needs
Thinking
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And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.
Alice Childress / Playwright
Black
Events
Sides
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your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.
Alice Childress / Playwright
Knows
Soul
Your Soul
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I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.
Alice Childress / Playwright
Believe
Cancer
Racism
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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 / Playwright
Ice
Independent
Mother
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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 / Playwright
Kindness
Be Kind
Life Is Short
Way
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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 / Playwright
Language
Prejudice
Ugly
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Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.
Alice Childress / Playwright
Laughing
Order
Winning
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The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .
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Hate
Twisted
Writing
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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 / Playwright
Jobs
And Love
Done
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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 / Playwright
Accomplishment
Ideas
Thinking
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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 / Playwright
African American
Patterns
Unique
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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 / Playwright
Generations
Poverty
Thinking
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