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

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

- 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

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

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

- Alice Childress

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

- Alice Childress

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

- Alice Childress