Alice Childress
Alice Childress
Alice Childresswas an American playwright, actor, and author, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades." Childress described her writing as trying to portray the have-nots in a have society, saying: "My writing attempts to interpret the 'ordinary' because they are not ordinary Each human is uniquely different. Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvellously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex...
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hurt pain real
Thoughts can hurt like real pain.
soul your-soul knows
your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.
hate writing twisted
The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .
heart soul gone
Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
pain black
The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
thinking generations poverty
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.
feminist should feels
Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.
feet forever want
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.
kindness thinking matter
I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.
nourishment
Some truth has no nourishment in it.
writing wind light
writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
patterns action problem
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.
cancer believe racism
I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.
life-is-short way be-kind
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.