Like One of the Family: Conversations f...
A source page for quotes linked to Alice Childress.
“I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.”
“Thoughts can hurt like real pain.”
“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.”
“It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.”
“That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.”
“Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.”
“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.”
“I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.”