Quotes by : James McBride

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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