Ernest J. Gaines - Men Quotes

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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Ernest J. Gaines
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

Ernest J. Gaines
We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

Ernest J. Gaines
And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier. They are fifty years younger, maybe more, but doing the same thing those old men did who never attended school a day in their lives. Is it just a vicious circle? Am I doing anything?

Ernest J. Gaines
King is probably one of three men of this century that I'll call heroic. A fantastic man as far as I'm concerned, for all that he did.

Ernest J. Gaines
Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.

Ernest J. Gaines
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?- Check your egos at the door.

Ernest J. Gaines