Childress Quotes & Sayings

In the Narcisstic parent's eyes, they do no wrong nor do they feel they should be held accountable for the bad and wrong things that they have done. — Katherine Childress

Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind. — Alice Childress

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

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next. — Alice Childress

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

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. — Alice Childress

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it. — Alice Childress

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. — Alice Childress

Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'. — Alice Childress

One day I almost said it . . . after goin over the words in my mind, "Benjie, the greatest thing in the world is to love someone and they love you too." But when I opened my mouth, I said, "Benjie, brush the crumbs off your jacket. — Alice Childress

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves. — Alice Childress

Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars. — Dale Earnhardt

Gawd might forgive but people never will. — Alice Childress

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead. — Alice Childress

Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet — Sabrina Childress

dear little baby of the folks I work for, I got a present for you .. my whole damn life! I'm handin' it over to you & your ma & pa. if you got no money to pay, I wanna stay anyhow, my pleasure is to wait on you forever. to hell with my children & hooray for you!.. you stayin' up all night fixin' up Character Parts for me! givin' 'em what you call dignity! dignity! you know what your dignity is? a black straw hat with a flower stickin' up in front, hands folded cross my stomach, sayin' the same damn fool things .. only nice & easy & proper!" --trouble in mind (1955) — Alice Childress

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong. — Alice Childress

Alex has met them at the restaurant with his latest girlfriend, black-banged Lola, a performance artist who claims to have studied magic. — Ron Childress

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. — Alice Childress

Now there is the feeling that this trailer is a Bundt pan and I'm taking on its shape. Each day in Downy Mount I get a little more baked in. — Helen Childress

But if we grow stronger...and rise higher than what's pullin' us down...Yes, rise higher than dirt...that fifty pound weight will lift and you'll be free, free without anybody's by-your-leave. Do something to wash out the sin. — Alice Childress

Man, throughout the ages Hasn't yet made up his mind Whether we're fruit or vegetable. That's okay, we still taste just fine. — Geryn Childress

Thoughts can hurt like real pain. — Alice Childress

Schoolteachers can be some hard-eyed people, with talkin eyes; they mouth sayin one thing and them eyes be screamin another. — Alice Childress

Hear with your ears, listen with your heart. — John R. Childress

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong. — Alice Childress

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

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

Once you've raced, you never forget it ... and you never get over it. — Richard Childress

Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised. — Sabrina Childress

I don't worry about nothing. I have a lot of concerns. My life is full of concerns, but I try not to worry. — Richard Childress

I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head. — Alice Childress

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day. — Alice Childress

I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport. — Cale Yarborough

A woman need a man to claim, even if it's a dead one. — Alice Childress

Two things a man can give the woman he loves...his name and his protection... — Alice Childress

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. — Alice Childress

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. — Alice Childress

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now. — Alice Childress

But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship. — Dale Earnhardt

Mom was a flower of the south — Mark Childress

The area became known as the Zone of Silence because normal radios do not work within the 1,500 square mile area. Some sort of interference generated within the zone jams the signals. — David Hatcher Childress

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! — Alice Childress

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom. — Alice Childress

If love is a battlefield and we all get scars ... These were my reminders ... my necessary thorns. — Sabrina Childress

Some truth has no nourishment in it. — Alice Childress

That's sin, [...] leavin' on a lie. — Alice Childress

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe. — Alice Childress

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more. — Alice Childress

Sound like a promise that can never happen. — Alice Childress