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.
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'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
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
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it. - Alice Childress
The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. - Alice Childress
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now. - Alice Childress
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.
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… - Alice Childress
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…
I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more. - Alice Childress
I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.
It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom. - Alice Childress
It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides. - Alice Childress
And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.
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