American - Writer | September 11, 1957 -
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
James McBride
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Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.
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The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
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The black church will accept anybody.
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As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.
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Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.
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I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.
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If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.
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I don't come from Lake Wobegon, and that world is not mine. It's not that funny to me. It's funny to other people, and I'm not judging it, but the world that I come from is not considered funny by other people as well. There's so much pain in it.
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People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.
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I read more history books than anything else.
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I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.
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