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James McBride Quote: “Why she got to be bowlegged?” “I do got standards.”

151. “Why she got to be bowlegged?” “I do got standards.”

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James McBride Quote: “You can forever remember the wrongs done to you as long as you live,” she said. “But if you forget ’em and go on living, it’s almost as good as forgiving.”

152. “You can forever remember the wrongs done to you as long as you live,” she said. “But if you forget ’em and go on living, it’s almost as good as forgiving.”

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James McBride Quote: “For God’s people – all of ’em.”

153. “For God’s people – all of ’em.”

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James McBride Quote: “If you growed up down home, you’d know about the old ways. Those are good ways. A dish of salt keeps the devil out.”

154. “If you growed up down home, you’d know about the old ways. Those are good ways. A dish of salt keeps the devil out.”

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James McBride Quote: “Thank you, Monkey Pants.”

155. “Thank you, Monkey Pants.”

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James McBride Quote: “Booze, he thought. I chose booze over my Moonflower.”

156. “Booze, he thought. I chose booze over my Moonflower.”

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James McBride Quote: “They produced a piece of jewelry, handed it to him, and asked what it was. A mezuzah, the old man said. It matches the one on the door, the cops said. Don’t these things belong on doors? The old man shrugged. Jewish life is portable, he said. The inscription on the back says “Home of the Greatest Dancer in the World.” It’s in Hebrew. You speak Hebrew? Do I look like I speak Swahili? Answer the question. You speak Hebrew or not? I bang my head against it sometimes.”

157. “They produced a piece of jewelry, handed it to him, and asked what it was. A mezuzah, the old man said. It matches the one on the door, the cops said. Don’t these things belong on doors? The old man shrugged. Jewish life is portable, he said. The inscription on the back says “Home of the Greatest Dancer in the World.” It’s in Hebrew. You speak Hebrew? Do I look like I speak Swahili? Answer the question. You speak Hebrew or not? I bang my head against it sometimes.”

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James McBride Quote: “Chona had never been one to play by the rules of American society. She did not experience the world as most people did. To her, the world was not a china closet where you admire this and don’t touch that. Rather, she saw it as a place where every act of living was a chance for tikkun olam, to improve the world.”

158. “Chona had never been one to play by the rules of American society. She did not experience the world as most people did. To her, the world was not a china closet where you admire this and don’t touch that. Rather, she saw it as a place where every act of living was a chance for tikkun olam, to improve the world.”

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James McBride Quote: “Whenever they feel like working, they sit and wait till the feeling passes. They can’t pour a glass of water without making a party of it.”

159. “Whenever they feel like working, they sit and wait till the feeling passes. They can’t pour a glass of water without making a party of it.”

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James McBride Quote: “Giving words to ideas was too dangerous in their world. When Poppa did give words to something, though, it was for a reason. It had weight.”

160. “Giving words to ideas was too dangerous in their world. When Poppa did give words to something, though, it was for a reason. It had weight.”

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James McBride Quote: “Whatever’s back there don’t matter. It’s what’s ahead of you that counts. Don’t.”

161. “Whatever’s back there don’t matter. It’s what’s ahead of you that counts. Don’t.”

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James McBride Quote: “The journey ahead was long. There was no promise ahead. There was no need to rush now.”

162. “The journey ahead was long. There was no promise ahead. There was no need to rush now.”

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James McBride Quote: “I read the book on not being explained to. That’s called being an old colored woman, sir.”

163. “I read the book on not being explained to. That’s called being an old colored woman, sir.”

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James McBride Quote: “But American history is not meant to be pretty. It is plain. It is simple. It is strong and truthful. Full of blood.”

164. “But American history is not meant to be pretty. It is plain. It is simple. It is strong and truthful. Full of blood.”

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James McBride Quote: “Even our church is different. We don’t sing with a piano. We chant the old songs and dance in circles, and we don’t cross our feet when we dance, for that is worldly dancing. Why we do these things, I do not know. It’s one of the many things passed down to us from the old people.”

165. “Even our church is different. We don’t sing with a piano. We chant the old songs and dance in circles, and we don’t cross our feet when we dance, for that is worldly dancing. Why we do these things, I do not know. It’s one of the many things passed down to us from the old people.”

— James McBride

James McBride Quote: “He saw now she was not just handsome, but rather had a quiet, cumulative beauty. She was a tall woman, middle-aged, whose face was not etched with the stern lines of church folks who’ve seen too much and done little about it other than pray.”

166. “He saw now she was not just handsome, but rather had a quiet, cumulative beauty. She was a tall woman, middle-aged, whose face was not etched with the stern lines of church folks who’ve seen too much and done little about it other than pray.”

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James McBride Quote: “How could a man get ahead if he had crap dropping on him all the time?”

167. “How could a man get ahead if he had crap dropping on him all the time?”

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