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Top 20 Alice Childress Quotes (2025 Update)

Alice Childress Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Alice Childress Quote: “Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.”

2. “Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.”

— Alice Childress

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

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

— Alice Childress

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

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

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “Some truth has no nourishment in it.”

5. “Some truth has no nourishment in it.”

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.”

6. “The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.”

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.”

7. “Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.”

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “Thoughts can hurt like real pain.”

8. “Thoughts can hurt like real pain.”

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “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.”

9. “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

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

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

— Alice Childress

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

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

— Alice Childress

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

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

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.”

13. “We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.”

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “I am lonesome so regular it’s like a job I gotta report to every day.”

14. “I am lonesome so regular it’s like a job I gotta report to every day.”

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “Sound like a promise that can never happen.”

15. “Sound like a promise that can never happen.”

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “It’s a poor kind of man that won’t fight for his own freedom.”

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

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.”

17. “Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.”

— Alice Childress

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

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

— Alice Childress

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

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

— Alice Childress

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

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

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin’.”

21. “Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin’.”

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “A woman need a man to claim, even if it’s a dead one.”

22. “A woman need a man to claim, even if it’s a dead one.”

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “Don’t it give you the goose pimples when you realize that white people can kill us and get away with it? Just think of it! We are walkin’ targets everywhere we go – on the subway, in the street, everywhere.”

23. “Don’t it give you the goose pimples when you realize that white people can kill us and get away with it? Just think of it! We are walkin’ targets everywhere we go – on the subway, in the street, everywhere.”

— Alice Childress

Alice Childress Quote: “Why, workin’ people are the grandest folks in the whole wide world. They set the steamships on the ocean and the lighthouse on the land, they give us our breakfast coffee and a roof over our heads at night.”

24. “Why, workin’ people are the grandest folks in the whole wide world. They set the steamships on the ocean and the lighthouse on the land, they give us our breakfast coffee and a roof over our heads at night.”

— Alice Childress

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