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.

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. . . "the good old days." The only good days are ahead.

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.

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .

. . . and realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. . . . Time and events allow for change on both sides.

. . . 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.