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Ernest Gaines quotes

American Writer January 15, 1933

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I think it's God that makes people care for people, Jefferson. I think it's God makes children play and people sing. I believe it's God that brings loved ones together. I believe it's God that makes trees bud and food grow out of the earth. Ernest Gaines
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. Ernest Gaines
I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community. Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines quote: "How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from..."
How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God? Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines quote: "Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me,..."
Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake. Ernest Gaines
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing. Ernest Gaines
I don't care what a man is. I mean, a great artist is like a great doctor. I don't care how racist he is. If he can show me how to operate on a heart so that I can cure a brother, or cure someone else, I don't give a damn what the man thinks; he has taught me something. And that is valuable to me. And that is valuable to others and man as a whole. Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines quote: "There will always be men struggling to change, and there will..."
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past. Ernest Gaines
The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly. Ernest Gaines
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. Ernest Gaines
We've only been living in these ghettos for seventy-five years or so, but the other three hundred years -- I think this is worth writing about. I think we've made tremendous sacrifices, we've shown tremendous strength. In the ghetto you see a lot of frustration; you see very little strength. Ernest Gaines
When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs. Ernest Gaines
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline. Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines quote: "I hope when I die, they won't put on my tombstone, 'He wrote..."
I hope when I die, they won't put on my tombstone, 'He wrote Miss Jane Pittman.' Put anything else, but don't put just that. Ernest Gaines
I tried to decide just how I should respond to them. Whether I should act like the teacher that I was, or like the nigger that I was supposed to be. Ernest Gaines

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