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...
Alice Childress quotes about
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.
jobs loneliness lonesome
I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.
creative patterns
It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.
mother independent ice
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.
inspirational good-day good-old-days
"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.
jobs done care
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.
thinking ideas accomplishment
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!
fighting men kind
It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
anger mad water
I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
black sides events
And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.
next looks look-up
That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.
educational patterns snowflake
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.
believe truth-is
Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
winning order laughing
Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.