James McBride
James McBride
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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.
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They talk themselves out of everything else, there's nothing else but you and the information you want, and they give it to you.
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All four of them want it pretty badly. It's the last great site on the Strip and there's never going to be another chance like this.
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God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.
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You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself,
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I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
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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.
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But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.
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People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.
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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.
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As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
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Be kind to the living.
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First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.