41 Quotes by Alice Childress

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.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

Thoughts can hurt like real pain.

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .