Alice Childress Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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