Alice Childress Quotes

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'Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

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

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We always some 'problem' and people takin' potshots at us is always called 'tension' and why you and me who have been citizens for generations should be called 'minorities' is more than I can see.

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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 that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

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I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

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Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

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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.

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I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.

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Your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

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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.

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Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

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Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance. A way to light a candle in a gale wind.

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That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

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Each human is uniquely different. Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

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

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Everybody can be wrong sometime, and when you wrong you oughta stand up and be wrong right out, and not be hidin and lyin.

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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.

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All my life I been hearin bout old folks and, of course, old folks is always somebody else and you can understand that much better than when you might be the one.

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Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age?... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!

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