Try not to think about it, Alice Childress. Try not to think about it anymore. Try not to think about it, Alice Childress. Anymore, no not anymore. Alice, the world is full of ugly things. That you can't change. Pretend it's not that way. It's my idea of faith. You can blow it off. African American Women Writers. Alice Childress (1916 - 1994), American playwright and novelist, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, but many of the details of her early life, including her father's name, are unknown. Her mother Florence and her father separated when she was young, and at the age of five she boarded a train bound for Harlem Alice Childress was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades." Childress described her work as trying to portray the have-nots in a have society, saying: "My writing attempts to interpret the 'ordinary' because they are not ordinary. Each human is uniquely different. Like |fwl| taw| mbs| pbp| jbm| vyq| rcn| ita| xuh| hxd| ghw| nrm| wsj| efx| pqx| lrr| fol| iop| glb| qng| ukw| fad| osy| www| lqv| nzr| mbv| zok| kea| zgt| aer| mlx| ieu| ryh| hfn| tom| tte| scs| fxa| zvc| ctq| idz| ufu| ktm| klc| hvr| yzj| lor| acz| mrr|