James McBride
James McBride
added art believe certainly children created digital picture pop portraits themselves
The children created pop art portraits of themselves by tracing over a digital picture on the computer. It certainly added something extra. At the end of the class, they couldn't believe that it was already playtime.
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The important thing is for students to know that it's OK to fail. Failure teaches success you don't have to aim for law school or medical school as alternatives for living a full and useful life.
god color water
God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.
world want what-you-want
You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself,
differences race doe
But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.
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I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has allowed me to speak in a kind of free way. But most African American writers don't have that. They don't have that opportunity, they don't have that.
be-kind kind
Be kind to the living.
narrative firsts tools
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
eye intelligent men
You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and you talk to them in really intelligent terms, you ask difficult questions, there's a militancy that's assigned to you without you asking for it, because you are simply judged by what you look like. If you're a white person asking the same questions, you'd be one of these CNN guys and say how brilliant he is. That doesn't work for you, because this is the world we live in.
vans headlights stills
I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.
color trying wish
I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.
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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.
sex thinking issues
Testosterone is a sex hormone, and I think it is the most social of hormones. The major social effect of testosterone is to orient us toward issues of sex and power. By the end of puberty testosterone levels in males are 8 to 10 times higher than in females, but decrease with age.
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My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."