James McBride Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• 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."

  James McBride

  Friends, Children, School

  James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.83, A&C Black

• There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life. Next to that, all the rules and religions in the world are secondary; mere words and beliefs that people choose to believe and kill and hate by. My life won't be lived that way, and neither, I hope, will my children's.

  James McBride

  Children, Hate, Believe

• The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and don't really listen to anybody else. Don't stand around with a bunch of writers and talk about writing. You know when you see plumbers at a plumbers convention, usually they're not talking about plumbing: they're talking about whatever it is that two men happen to talk about. They're talking about sports, their wives and children. I just tell my students, don't talk about writing too much, just go out and do it. Find out whatever you need to get to the mainland.

  James McBride

  Sports, Children, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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