American - Writer | September 11, 1957 -
A typewriter forces you to keep going, to march forward.
James McBride
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I'm hot on the Jewish book club circuit. How many black authors do you know who can say that?
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The media's image of us is as animals, and we were never that to me. I knew love from black folks.
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I don't do any art to please any people.
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My mother tried her best to give us a sense of self-esteem.
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There is a lot wrong with the church.
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When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.
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A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.
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I think what makes his story unique from others is there is not really one piece of American pop music you hear today that does not have some James Brown in it.
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When you study history in American schools, very rarely is the name John Brown mentioned. We know who Kanye West is or Twyla Tharp or Shania Twain.
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We don't know who John Brown was, and in many ways, his work shaped where we are today. He was a Pennsylvanian. He was the prototypical Yankee who fought back and suffered in doing so.
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I was in a special class in high school for truants. They made us stay together all day. Once a week, they would send us to a guidance counselor. He would sit me in his office and he would try to talk to me.
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