You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself, — James McBride Copy Share Image
“...how long could I go on before she'd find out who I was? She'd know it before long. Besides, how can somebody… — James McBride Body love 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
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. — James McBride First person Copy Share Image
...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus… — James McBride Boys 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 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 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
“The greatest gift that anyone can give anyone is LIFE. And the greatest sin a person can do is to take away… — James McBride Gift 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 Copy Share Image
There are two responses to really awful things. One is to lament and say, "Oh my God, oh lord." And the other… — James McBride 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Sometimes without conscious realization, our thoughts, our faith, out interests are entered into the past. We talk about other times, other places,… — James McBride 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
“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
When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space… — James McBride Best way 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
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 Copy Share Image
“We all got to die," she said. "But dying as your true self is always better. God'll take you however you come… — James McBride Death Copy Share Image
I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that… — James McBride African american 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
“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
The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's… — James McBride 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 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 Dreamer Copy Share Image
