The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .
The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it. - 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 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.
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. - Alice Childress
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.
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.
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…
Some truth has no nourishment in it. - Alice Childress
Some truth has no nourishment in it.
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.
It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought. - Alice Childress
It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.
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