Quotes from Alice Childress

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.