Creative Quotations from . . .
Alice Childress
(1920-1994) born on Oct 12
US "playwright, actress, director". "She was a successful actress and director before becoming a playwright; her plays include "Florence," 1950 and "Trouble in Mind," 1955."
 
   
F
. . . "the good old days." The only good days are ahead."

R
"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."
A
"The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . ."
N
. . . and realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. . . . Time and events allow for change on both sides.
K
. . . it's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Alice Childress," in "Interviews with Contemporary Women Playwrights," by Kathleen Betsko & Rachel Koenig, 1987."
R: "Tommy in "Wine in the Wilderness," 1969."
A: ""A Candle in a Gale Wind," in "Black Women Writers," ed. Mari Evans, 1984."
N: ""A Candle in a Gale Wind," in "Black Women Writers," ed. Mari Evans, 1984."
K: "In "And I Quote," by Ashton Applewhite, 1992."



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