41 Quotes by Alice Childress

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

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.

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

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.