Quotes by James McBride

James McBride

…since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to relatives in Kentucky, to college. She pushed me away from her just as she’d pushed my elder siblings away when we lived in New York, literally shoving them out the front door when they left for college.

New York

School

Sibling

As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I’ve never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you’re critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of “The New York Times,” and he says something, like, wacky, well, he’ll get his name on the cover of “The New York Times” and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.

Artist

Book

New York

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

Details

Journalist

Stories

Be kind to the living.

Be Kind

Kind

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That’s what counts.

Answers

Games

The End Of The Day

But what difference does it make? … When you’re mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

Differences

Doe

Race

Educate yourself or you’ll be a nobody!

Educate

Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

Discovery

Family

Miracle

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

Firsts

Narrative

Tools

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.

Caring

Seeds

Up To You

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Accepting

African American

America

Answers

Artist

Battle

Be Kind

Believe

Bills

Biographies

Black

Blow

Book

Brain

Cancer

Careers

Caring

Character

Children

Church

College

Color

Cutting

Depressing

Details

Differences

Discovery

Doe

Educate

Eye

Fall

Family

Family Life

Father

Fats

Firsts

Forget

Form

Friends

Frogs

Fuel

Fun

Games

Giving

God

Gun

Hands

Hard Times

Hate

Headlights

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

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The Autobiography

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The Behaviour Diary

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Quotes by James McBride

James McBride

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

Be kind to the living.

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That’s what counts.

But what difference does it make? … When you’re mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

Educate yourself or you’ll be a nobody!

Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.

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