Alice Childress Quotes

The good old days. The only good days are ahead.

Alice Childress

Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.

Alice Childress

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

Alice Childress

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.

Alice Childress

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

Alice Childress

dear little baby of the folks I work for, I got a present for you .. my whole damn life! I'm handin' it over to you & your ma & pa. if you got no money to pay, I wanna stay anyhow, my pleasure is to wait on you forever. to hell with my children & hooray for you!.. you stayin' up all night fixin' up Character Parts for me! givin' 'em what you call dignity! dignity! you know what your dignity is? a black straw hat with a flower stickin' up in front, hands folded cross my stomach, sayin' the same damn fool things .. only nice & easy & proper!" --trouble in mind (1955)

Alice Childress