“He was like everybody in war. He believed God was on his side. Everybody got God on their side in a war.… — James McBride War Copy Share Image
“God I am looking for the one thing I have never felt but once, and I would walk through heaven and earth… — James McBride Heaven and earth Copy Share Image
“Everybody got God on their side in war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.” — James McBride War Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere really. I have a hard time writing when the birds are tweeting and the brooks are running outside.… — James McBride Apartment Copy Share Image
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… — James McBride Different Copy Share Image
The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus. — James McBride Finest Copy Share Image
But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is. — James McBride Absurd 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
Slavery was a web of relationships, and if people knew how thick the whole business was, they would not make fun of… — James McBride Fun Copy Share Image
If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue. — James McBride Form 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
Testosterone is a sex hormone, and I think it is the most social of hormones. The major social effect of testosterone is… — James McBride Age 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 Answers Copy Share Image
The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree.… — James McBride Bird Copy Share Image
It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of… — James McBride Black Copy Share Image
“The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him.” — James McBride Truth Copy Share Image
It's a real stumper to sit around and try to think in your own head, but when you go into somebody else's… — James McBride Break 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 Black Copy Share Image
I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very… — James McBride Accepting Copy Share Image
“Listen, don't meet your heroes. If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed.” — James McBride Hero 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
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 Sides 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 Certain Copy Share Image
