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
“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
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
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 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
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
I'm trying to educate people about things that I believe are right, and some of the things that I believe are right… — James McBride Believe 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
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
I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St.… — James McBride Anna Copy Share Image
God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you. — James McBride Caring 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
“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
I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she… — James McBride Building Copy Share Image
“There ain't no time for foolishness now. You in it now. You got to stay in it.” — James McBride Time Copy Share Image
When you walk the significant land, the land speaks to you - even if it's 150 years later. You walk the earth… — James McBride Brain Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody.… — James McBride Every moment 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
“She wore a flowered blue dress of the type whores naturally favored, and that thing was so tight that when she moved,… — James McBride Beauty Copy Share Image
I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the… — James McBride Book Copy Share Image
If you're a creative person, you'd better not read what people write about you, because if it's good it'll blow your head… — James McBride Blow Copy Share Image
It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb… — James McBride Bombs Copy Share Image
