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“A body can’t prosper if a person don’t know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who you are inside. That’s worse than being anything in the world on the outside.” (The Good Lord Bird Quotes)
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
“Being a Negro’s a lie, anyway. Nobody sees the real you. Nobody knows who you are inside. You just judged on what you are on the outside whatever your color. Mulatto, colored, black, it don’t matter. You just a Negro to the world.”
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
“Everybody got God on their side in war. Problem is, God ain’t tellin’ nobody who He’s for.”
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
“God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.”
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
“He was like everybody in war. He believed God was on his side. Everybody got God on their side in a war. Problem is, God ain’t tellin’ nobody who He’s for.”
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
“I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn’t count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.”
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
“If you think looking at three hundred boiling-mad, half-cocked Virginians holding every kind of breechloader under God’s sun staring back at you with murder in their eyes is a ticket to redemption, you is on the dot.”
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
“It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can’t be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free? That pressed on my heart like a vise right then. Just mashed me down.”
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
“It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment.”
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
“Some things in this world just ain’t mean to be, not in the times we want’em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that’s to come. There’s a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that’s a heavy load to bear.”
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
“The Negro comes in many colors. Dark. Black. Blacker. Blackest. Blacker than night. Black as hell. Black as tar.”
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
“This is what happens when a boy becomes a man. You get stupider.”
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
“Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn’t matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.”
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
“When folks wanna believe something, the truth ain’t got no place in that compartment.”
James McBride
The Good Lord Bird
