Good quotes from "COLOR OF WATER" by James McBride

God is the color is water. Water doesn’t have a color.”


“Educated yourself or you’ll be a nobody. If you’re a nobody, it doesn’t matter what color you are.”


“If you throw water on the floor it will always find a hole, believe me.”


“You are not no smarter than anybody here.”


“You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.”

“As I sat down on the bus and looked for her through the window, it occurred to me that since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go.”


“If you stay here, you will fool around that were near home, go away and learn to live on your own.”


“All your sorry are gone when a person dies.”


“That’s why you have to say all your “sorry” and “I love yours” while a person is living, because tomorrow isn’t promised.”


“The greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life.”


“He may walk along old familiar streets and roads, but he is a stranger in a stranger land. He has thought of this place as home, but he finds he is no longer here even in spirit.”


“He has gone on to a new and different life, and thinking longingly of the past, he has been giving thought and interest to something that no longer really exist.



“Well, if you don’t have foresight and vision, don’t waste God’s time.”



“You know time is not promised.”


“Get on with yourself: Play sax, write books, compose music, do something, express yourself, who the hell are you anyway.”