James McBride (writer) Quotes

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of ...

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class ...

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your oute...

Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll ...

We all got to die," she said. "But dying as your true self is always better. God'll take you however...

There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that an...

The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against ...

See, a marriage needs love. And God. And a little money. That's all. The rest you can deal with. It'...

That was the Old Man’s favorite song. “Blow Ye Trumpet.” Them Negroes was far away from the doings o...

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that edu...

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the d...

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who wal...

It's God's world. He washes you clean. He makes you whole. He puts rain in your garden and sunshine ...

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it w...