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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.
Alice Childress
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Alice Childress
Age: 77 †
Born: 1916
Born: October 12
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .
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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.
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And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.
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Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.
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Writers are encouraged to keep 'em laughing and complain with good humor in order to win allies. The joke is always on ourselves.
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I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.
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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.
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I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.
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The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
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I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.
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Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!
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I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
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The good old days. The only good days are ahead.
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Thoughts can hurt like real pain.
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It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
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your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.
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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.
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Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
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Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
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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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