James Mcbride said this quote

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

~ James Mcbride

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

~ James Mcbride

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.

~ James Mcbride

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

~ James Mcbride