Alice Childress was an American playwright known for her profound insights into racial and social issues. Her works often focused on the lives of black communities, exploring issues of gender, class, and racial inequality. Childress's works include 'Florence' and 'Florence, Florence', which had a profound impact on the theater world.
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Source: Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life
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“I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.”
Source: A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich
Source: Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life
“Thoughts can hurt like real pain.”
Source: A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich
“writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.”
“Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.”
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“It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.”
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“That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.”
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Source: Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life
“Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.”
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“Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.”
“It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.”
Source: Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life
“I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.”
Source: Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life