Quotes by : James McBride

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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.