James McBride Quotes

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• Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.
• My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty…
• The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he…
• The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.
• God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.
• Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never…
• Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it…
• I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as…
• I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life…
• Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
• My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said,…
• But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.
• People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at…
• As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
• Be kind to the living.
• First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
• I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.
• I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying…
• I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode…
• I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.

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