Ernest J. Gaines Short Quotes

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Good by mr wigin tell them im strong tell them im a man.

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

Ernest J. Gaines
I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

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"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."

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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

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Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

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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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I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

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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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All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

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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.

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Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

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I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

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Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

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I would think a faith in God is one thing. I think that if we could change the whole world and keep the land is another thing. Change things yet keep keep the relationship is another thing.

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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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