“See, a marriege needs love. And God. And a little money. That's all.” — James McBride Little money Copy Share Image
“And when James asked what color God was, she said, God is the color of water.” — James McBride God Said Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. — James McBride Bills 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 Drivers Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with… — James McBride Certain 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 Healing 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
My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that.… — James McBride Asked 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
“I was ashamed of my mother, but see, love didn't come natural to me until I became a Christian.- Ruth McBride” — James McBride Love Copy Share Image
...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus… — James McBride Boys Copy Share Image
I could have been, and may one day well be a high school English teacher, because I've been given so much I… — James McBride Be good Copy Share Image
I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that… — James McBride African american Copy Share Image
“We all got to die," she said. "But dying as your true self is always better. God'll take you however you come… — James McBride Death 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
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
I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count… — James McBride Covering Copy Share Image
If you're going to cheat and take people's history and you're not writing the Bible, you ain't really so great. But if… — James McBride Bed Copy Share Image
“back,” Daddy said. “It’ll work out.” He had no idea what to do about Helen. They spoke a completely different language. He… — James McBride Closed door Copy Share Image
You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and… — James McBride Asking 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 Strong enough Copy Share Image
The act of choosing what to place in your piece when you're a historian or a non-fiction writer already renders it into… — James McBride Brutal 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
There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in… — James McBride Book Copy Share Image
I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any… — James McBride Anna Copy Share Image
There has to be some mystery in life, because the joy of being a writer and the joy of being a musician… — James McBride Discovering Copy Share Image
Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning. — James McBride Cutting Copy Share Image
If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue. — James McBride Form Copy Share Image
