Like One of the Family Quotes

“Why, workin’ people are the grandest folks in the whole wide world. They set the steamships on the ocean and the lighthouse on the land, they give us our breakfast coffee and a roof over our heads at night.”
― Alice Childress, Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life

“Don’t it give you the goose pimples when you realize that white people can kill us and get away with it? Just think of it! We are walkin’ targets everywhere we go—on the subway, in the street, everywhere.”
― Alice Childress, Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life

“...and nobody would write peace on no walls...'cause it would be peace...and our hearts would be free!”
― Alice Childress, Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life