James McBride

Writer

1957-09-11

Books by James McBride

The color of water
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
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The Good Lord Bird
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Quotes by James McBride

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.
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I asked her if I was black or white. She replied You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
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God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.
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I asked her if I was black or white. She replied You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
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Spike Lee listens a lot. He's one of the quietest creative people I've ever met.
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The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more.
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We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.
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Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.
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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 black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.
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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 to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.
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I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn't be caught dead there.
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If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.
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When you study history in American schools, very rarely is the name John Brown mentioned. We know who Kanye West is or Twyla Tharp or Shania Twain.
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When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.
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Every time I see something about the Wild West, I'm reminded that our version of history may not be what really happened.
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