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

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

Alice Childress quotes: I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.

I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.

Alice Childress quotes: Thoughts can hurt like real pain.

Thoughts can hurt like real pain.

Alice Childress quotes: I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

Alice Childress quotes: Sound like a promise that can never happen.

Sound like a promise that can never happen.

Alice Childress quotes: It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

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

Alice Childress quotes: Gawd might forgive but people never will.

Gawd might forgive but people never will.

Alice Childress quotes: Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

Alice Childress quotes: That's sin, [...] leavin' on a lie.

That's sin, [...] leavin' on a lie.

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

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

Alice Childress quotes: Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

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

Alice Childress quotes: Two things a man can give the woman he loves...his name and his protection...

Two things a man can give the woman he loves...his name and his protection...

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

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

Alice Childress quotes: It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

Alice Childress quotes: The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Alice Childress quotes: That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

Alice Childress quotes: "The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

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

Alice Childress quotes: Schoolteachers can be some hard-eyed people, with talkin eyes; they mouth sayin one thing and them eyes be screamin another.

Schoolteachers can be some hard-eyed people, with talkin eyes; they mouth sayin one thing and them eyes be screamin another.

Alice Childress quotes: Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alice Childress quotes: 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.

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.

Alice Childress quotes: 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.

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 quotes: A woman need a man to claim, even if it's a dead one.

A woman need a man to claim, even if it's a dead one.

Alice Childress quotes: Some truth has no nourishment in it.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

Alice Childress quotes: Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'.

Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'.