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“A bird who flies is special. You would never trap a bird who flies” (The Color of Water Quotes)
James McBride
The Color of Water
“God is the color of water. Water doesn’t have a color.”
James McBride
The Color of Water
“I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets”
James McBride
The Color of Water
“I asked her if I was black or white. She replied “You are a human being. Educate yourself or you’ll be a nobody!”
James McBride
The Color of Water
“I was ashamed of my mother, but see, love didn’t come natural to me until I became a Christian.- Ruth McBride”
James McBride
The Color of Water
“It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.”
James McBride
The Color of Water
“My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.”
James McBride
The Color of Water
“See, a marriage needs love. And God. And a little money. That’s all.”
James McBride
The Color of Water
“Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.”
James McBride
The Color of Water
“The greatest gift that anyone can give anyone is life. And the greatest sin a person can do is to take away that life. Next to that, all rules and religions in the world are secondary, mere words and beliefs that people choose to believe and kill and hate by.”
James McBride
The Color of Water
“The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.”
James McBride
The Color of Water
“The question of race was like the power of the moon in my house. It’s what made the river flow, the ocean swell, and the tide rise, but it was a silent power, intractable, indomitable, indisputable, and thus completely ignorable.”
James McBride
The Color of Water
“They were all trying hard to be American, you know, not knowing what to keep and what to leave behind. But you know what happens when you do that. If you throw water on the floor it will always find a hole, believe me.”
James McBride
The Color of Water
“You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself,” my sister Jack told me several times. “Put yourself in God’s hands and you can’t go wrong.”
James McBride
The Color of Water
