If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue. — James McBride Copy Share Image
“We'll be colored when the day's done, no matter how the cut comes or goes.” — James McBride Copy Share Image
“See, a marriege needs love. And God. And a little money. That's all.” — James McBride Copy Share Image
I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in… — James McBride Book Copy Share Image
“here he dug in his pockets and produced a thimble, a root, two empty tin cans, three Indian arrowheads, an apple peeler,… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St.… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn’t matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth… — James McBride Belief Copy Share Image
It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination. — James McBride Imagination Copy Share Image
You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself, — James McBride Copy Share Image
“...how long could I go on before she'd find out who I was? She'd know it before long. Besides, how can somebody… — James McBride Body love Copy Share Image
“The Negro comes in many colors. Dark. Black. Blacker. Blackest. Blacker than night. Black as hell. Black as tar.” — James McBride Copy Share Image
My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family,… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“A body can't prosper if a person don't know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who… — James McBride Being yourself Copy Share Image
“Chase looked 'round and seen Frederick's grave where we'd buried him. "Who's that?" "Don't know. We been hiding in this thicket while… — James McBride Freedom Copy Share Image
Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has… — James McBride Bears Copy Share Image
“Wonderful," he said. "Tell me. Which books in the Bible do you favor?" "Oh, I favors 'em all," Pa said. "But I… — James McBride Bible Copy Share Image
My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb… — James McBride America Copy Share Image
But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Music and writing do fold together in the sense that you have to have a certain level of skill in order to… — James McBride Character Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone… — James McBride Artist Copy Share Image
“The plain truth is that you’d have an easier time standing in the middle of the Mississippi River and requesting that it… — James McBride Different races Copy Share Image
You know what needs to be done when you're a writer. You know what the job is, particularly if you're an African… — James McBride African american Copy Share Image
I'm a better musician now, and I rarely practice because age has taught me the value of economy. And I think I'm… — James McBride Age Copy Share Image
“The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against itself for a while, till… — James McBride Beauty Copy Share Image
“I had thoroughly been a girl so long by then that I'd grown to like it, got used to it, got used… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“Sometimes without conscious realization, our thoughts, our faith, out interests are entered into the past. We talk about other times, other places,… — James McBride Copy Share Image
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. — James McBride First person Copy Share Image
“You could see him coming from a distance, appearing out of nowhere like an angel, his silhouette seeming to rise from the… — James McBride Angel Copy Share Image
“Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.” — James McBride Heart Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and… — James McBride Mind Copy Share Image
What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some… — James McBride Comedy Copy Share Image
“Most cars drove through there because the drivers is either from The Bottom and wanna get home - or they ain't from… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“Everybody got God on their side in war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.” — James McBride Problem Copy Share Image
