James McBride
James McBride
heart let-it-go battle
The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's done. I just go to the next thing. I don't complain, I don't go to - I pick my battles very, very judiciously, and I just assume that there's good in the heart of everybody.
fuel not-interested
I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.
horse book jazz
I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
narrative firsts tools
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
fun intelligent people
Slavery was a web of relationships, and if people knew how thick the whole business was, they would not make fun of people like Harriet Tubman. They would understand how intelligent she was and how sharp.
vans headlights stills
I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.
gun waiting southern
It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.
heart remembrance promise
Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.
book college giving
I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.
white black humans
I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
world want what-you-want
You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself,
god color water
God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.
america black want
The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
hurt writing blow
If you're a creative person, you'd better not read what people write about you, because if it's good it'll blow your head up and it'll force you not to take the subway and you'll start taking cabs, and you'd better stay around people, and if it's bad, it just hurts your feelings so much it discourages you.