My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family, they were all from the South. So I like that old Black voice, and I love the sort of old Black man with a corncob pipe, sitting there telling a whopper.
James McBrideMy 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