If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue. — James McBride Copy Share Image
“And when James asked what color God was, she said, God is the color of water.” — James McBride Copy Share Image
“There ain't no time for foolishness now. You in it now. You got to stay in it.” — James McBride Foolishness 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
“Listen, don't meet your heroes. If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed.” — James McBride Hero 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 Ashamed 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 Copy Share Image
“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
I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a… — James McBride 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 Copy Share Image
The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus. — James McBride Copy Share Image
“...for one thing you learns when you is a girl is that most women's hearts is full of secrets.” — James McBride Secrets 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
My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family,… — James McBride 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Wilmington, Del. (AP) June 14, 1966—A fire that destroyed the city’s oldest Negro church has led to the discovery of a wild… — James McBride American history 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 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 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 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
There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else… — James McBride Alive Copy Share Image
“There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, and the greatest sin a person can do to… — James McBride Faith 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 Copy Share Image
“That was the Old Man’s favorite song. “Blow Ye Trumpet.” Them Negroes was far away from the doings on the plaza where… — James McBride 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 Copy Share Image
The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and… — James McBride Bartender 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Everybody got God on their side in war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.” — James McBride Problem Copy Share Image
“You could see him coming from a distance, appearing out of nowhere like an angel, his silhouette seeming to rise from the… — James McBride Angel Copy Share Image
“Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.” — James McBride Heart 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 Mind 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 Comedy Copy Share Image
It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination. — James McBride Imagination Copy Share Image
