James McBride Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.”

“I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.”

“If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.”

“My family is my career.”

“Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.”

“The black church will accept anybody.”

“The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.”

“It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.”