They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.” ~James McBride, The Color of Water, (Character: James McBride as the narrator), Chapter 4, It was our way of dealing with realities over which we had no control.” “My siblings and I spent hours playing tricks and teasing one another. ~James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, (Character: James McBride as the narrator), Page xix Here is her life as she told it to me, and betwixt and between the pages of her life you will find mine as well.” It took me fourteen years to unearth her remarkable story-the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, she married a black man in 1942-and she revealed it more as a favor to me than out of any desire to revisit her past. Her children became doctors, professors, chemists, teachers-yet none of us even knew her maiden name until we were grown. She raised twelve black children and sent us all to college and in most cases graduate school. When I asked she’d say, “God made me.” When I asked if she was white, she’d say, “I’m light-skinned,” and change the subject. “As a boy, I never knew where my mother was from-where she was born, who her parents were. The Color of Water Quotes With Page Numbers Chapters 1-5
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