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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
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James McBride
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 4
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When you walk the significant land, the land speaks to you - even if it's 150 years later. You walk the earth and good things happen. There's always something to be said for going to a spot, even if there's nothing there. That's why you have a brain, your mind moves to other places when you're standing at an important spot.
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My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, Come as you are.
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