Ernest J. Gaines - People Quotes

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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.

Ernest J. Gaines

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

Ernest J. Gaines

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

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Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

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This earth is yours and don't let that man out there take it from you. It's yours because your people's bones lays in it; it's yours because their sweat and their blood done drenched this earth.

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A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

Ernest J. Gaines