Alice Childress Quotes (15 Quotes)

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

I continue to create because writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was God.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

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

Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'.

Writers are encouraged to keep 'em laughing and complain with good humor in order to win allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

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.

. . . the good old days. The only good days are ahead.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .

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

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.

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.

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