Alice Childress - Like One of the Family (1956)

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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.

Alice Childress

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.

Alice Childress

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

Alice Childress

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!

Alice Childress

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.

Alice Childress

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

Alice Childress