A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich Quotes

“Schoolteachers can be some hard-eyed people, with talkin eyes; they mouth sayin one thing and them eyes be screamin another.”
― Alice Childress, A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

“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, A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

“He say, ’You can be somebody if you want.’ How the shit he don’t know I’m somebody right now? He think he somebody and I’m not.”
― Alice Childress, A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich