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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.
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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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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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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It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
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The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
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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 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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I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
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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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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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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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Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.
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The good old days. The only good days are ahead.
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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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Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.
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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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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 am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.
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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.
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