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But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That’s what counts.

James McBride

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James McBride
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 4
Jazz Musician
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The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
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I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.
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I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give I wish I'd majored in history in college.
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Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.
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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.
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I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.
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I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has allowed me to speak in a kind of free way. But most African American writers don't have that. They don't have that opportunity, they don't have that.
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God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.
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