247 Quotes by James McBride

I think what makes his story unique from others is there is not really one piece of American pop music you hear today that does not have some James Brown in it.

I don't want to read a book that's depressing.

When you study history in American schools, very rarely is the name John Brown mentioned. We know who Kanye West is or Twyla Tharp or Shania Twain.

Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

Caring is beyond race. Either people care about you, or they don't.

If I grew up in a truly color-blind society, I would not be a black American.

You can't live for literature. You can't live for the job.

I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.

When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.