Creative Quotations from Alice Childress (1920-1994)

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."

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

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!

"Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'."

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	""Alice Childress," in "Interviews with Contemporary Women Playwrights," by Kathleen Betsko & Rachel Koenig, 1987."
R:	""A Candle in a Gale Wind," in "Black Women Writers," ed. Mari Evans, 1984."
A:	"In "The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya," by Terri L. Jewell, 1993."
N:	"Oldtimer in "Wine in the Wilderness," 1969."
K:	""A Candle in a Gale Wind," in "Black Women Writers," ed. Mari Evans, 1984."