James McBride Quotes about School

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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.

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."

James McBride

Friends, Children, School

James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.83, A&C Black

...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 her just as she'd pushed my elder siblings away when we lived in New York, literally shoving them out the front door when they left for college.

James McBride

New York, Sibling, School

James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.146, A&C Black

James McBride Quotes about School

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