James McBride Quotes

38 quotes in 607 categories

• 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 movie that came…
• If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.
• My family is my career.
• Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
• The black church will accept anybody.
• The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
• Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.
• Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.
• It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional…
• When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and…
• You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself,
• But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules…
• Put yourself in God’s hands and you can’t go wrong.
• It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go…
• ...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary…
• There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And…
• God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.
• I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

Browse James McBride Quotes by Category