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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 a...

James McBride

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 a...

Tags: the good lord bird

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.

James McBride

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.

Tags: lyrical, sound

About Author
James McBride may refer to:

James McBride (footballer) (1873–1899), early Liverpool F.C. player
James McBride (pioneer) (1788–1859), American settler & amateur scientist
James McBride (politician) (1802–1875), American politician and doctor in Oregon
James McBride (writer) (born 1957), American writer & musician
James H. McBride (1814–1864), Confederate general in the American Civil War
Jim McBride (born 1941), American television and film director, film producer, and screenwriter
Jim McBride (Wyoming politician) (born 1948), former Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction
Jim McBride or Mr. Skin
Jim McBride (songwriter) (born 1947) American country music songwriter

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? Th...

James McBride

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? Th...

For one thing you learns when you is a girl is that most women's hearts is full of secrets.

James McBride

For one thing you learns when you is a girl is that most women's hearts is full of secrets.

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

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.

Chase looked 'round and seen Frederick's grave where we'd buried him.Who's that?Don't know. We been hiding in this thicket while the Free Staters was scouting 'round here. I heard 'em say it was one o...

James McBride

Chase looked 'round and seen Frederick's grave where we'd buried him.Who's that?Don't know. We been hiding in this thicket while the Free Staters was scouting 'round here. I heard 'em say it was one o...

Whatever you is, Onion, he said, be it full.

James McBride

Whatever you is, Onion, he said, be it full.

Tags: existence, purpose, self, self actualization, understanding

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

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.

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, yo...

James McBride

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, yo...

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 an...

James McBride

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 an...

Tags: heat, south

She wore a flowered blue dress of the type whores naturally favored, and that thing was so tight that when she moved, the daisies got all mixed up with the azaleas. She walked like a warm room full of...

James McBride

She wore a flowered blue dress of the type whores naturally favored, and that thing was so tight that when she moved, the daisies got all mixed up with the azaleas. She walked like a warm room full of...

It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment.

James McBride

It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

James McBride

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

Tags: religion

The Negro comes in many colors. Dark. Black. Blacker. Blackest. Blacker than night. Black as hell. Black as tar.

James McBride

The Negro comes in many colors. Dark. Black. Blacker. Blackest. Blacker than night. Black as hell. Black as tar.

The Old Man's prayers was more sight than sound, really, more sense than sensibility. You had to be there: the aroma of burnt pheasant rolling through the air, the wide, Kansas prairie about, the smel...

James McBride

The Old Man's prayers was more sight than sound, really, more sense than sensibility. You had to be there: the aroma of burnt pheasant rolling through the air, the wide, Kansas prairie about, the smel...

This is what happens when a boy becomes a man. You get stupider.

James McBride

This is what happens when a boy becomes a man. You get stupider.

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.

James McBride

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.

Tags: the good lord bird, true self

Since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to relatives in Kentucky, to college. She pushed me away from...

James McBride

Since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to relatives in Kentucky, to college. She pushed me away from...

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

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.

لم تعد لدي دموع لأذرفها فقد نفدت منذ زمن طويل، ولكن ألماً جديداً ووعياً جديداً ولدا في داخلي. بدأ الغموض المتوطن في داخلي يتبخر، وزال الألم الذي شعر به الولد الصغير الذي حدق في المرآة. لقد استيقظت إنس...

James McBride

لم تعد لدي دموع لأذرفها فقد نفدت منذ زمن طويل، ولكن ألماً جديداً ووعياً جديداً ولدا في داخلي. بدأ الغموض المتوطن في داخلي يتبخر، وزال الألم الذي شعر به الولد الصغير الذي حدق في المرآة. لقد استيقظت إنس...