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

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

- Alice Childress

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

- 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

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

- Alice Childress

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

- Alice Childress

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

- 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