Alice Childress Quotes

Best Quotes by Alice Childress (Top 10)

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.
Alice Childress
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.
Alice Childress
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.
Alice Childress
Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
Alice Childress
Some truth has no nourishment in it.
Alice Childress
Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.
Alice Childress
The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
Alice Childress
I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.
Alice Childress
Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
Alice Childress
"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.
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
The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .
Alice Childress
It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
Alice Childress
That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.
Alice Childress
And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.
Alice Childress
It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.
Alice Childress