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Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.
Alice Childress
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Alice Childress
Age: 77 †
Born: 1916
Born: October 12
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
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Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.
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Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
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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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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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writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
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I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
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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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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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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.
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Some truth has no nourishment in it.
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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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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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Thoughts can hurt like real pain.
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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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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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It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
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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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