James McBride Quotes

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.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 11, 1957

Topics

WorldStoryBlackProblemWhiteOld

Yes, I have this crazy honk of a laugh.

Jimmy Carr

CrazyLaughYes

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.

Joe Henderson

LightThoughtsWeatherYouFindWay

Many people, men in particular, just can't not be active. I guess our minds demand that we seek other challenges.

Jerry West

MenPeopleChallengesMindsActive

Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.

Andrea Bocelli

PatienceHeartTimeSacrificeDeep

At screenings for 'Black in America,' I've heard people say, 'Well you know, I never thought you were black until you did Katrina, and then I thought you were black.'

Soledad O'Brien

PeopleBlackThoughtAmericaYou

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

Steven Soderbergh

WorkMyselfFeelWishDoingLook

Fashion in the mid-'90s was too easy. Artistic culture was very earnest, so I was flamboyant and dangerous. I wanted to be seen as more than an outline, so I used fashion to say that for me.

Roisin Murphy

CultureMeFashionEasyDangerous

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.

Rush Limbaugh

WorldRestDoingCountryAnything

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.

Mikhail Sholokhov

LifeEgoForwardUniverseSayOwn

If you sit at your desk and reach and grab a cup of coffee, you don't look directly at the cup, focus on it, and get your fingers lined up before grabbing the coffee. In real life, you reach for a cup that you see out of the corner of your eye, and when you feel it, you know you can grab it.

Louis B. Rosenberg

LifeCoffeeFocusEyeReachLook

I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.

Jonathan Richman

MyselfSickNowSometimesRequest

That's the difficulty with free-kicks, as you get one, maybe two, and that's why it's tough. You have to score.

Dimitri Payet

ToughYouWhyTwoDifficultyScore

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