American - Writer | September 11, 1957 -
I wasn't a guy built to write about entertainment.
James McBride
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I just love music, and I love what music does for people.
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When I was younger, I was ambitious. Now I'm not ambitious anymore. I just want to be happy. Does that make sense?
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My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?
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Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.
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A lot of people are not interested in stories in which they don't see themselves.
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It would be nice if we redefined what we meant by 'war story.' If you're making $15,000 a year living in a certain area of Portland, trying to make it with three kids and no husband, that's a kind of war.
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The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more.
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Historians will tell you that they deal with fact and empirical evidence. But that doesn't really help me understand a person.
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When we're talking about slavery... we're really talking about the web of relationships that exists between whites and blacks from 1619 to 1865 to now.
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People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero.
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Anyone can write your own life story.
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