41 Quotes by Alice Childress

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

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.

I continue to create because writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was God.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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