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“ We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out. ”

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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!

~ James Mcbride

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

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Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.

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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