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Ernest Gaines quotes

American Writer January 15, 1933

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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. Ernest Gaines
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 Gaines
Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul, but just try to get those goddamned characters to act right. Ernest Gaines
Well, in San Francisco if someone's against you, they know how to vote you out of an area. If someone's against you in Louisiana, or if I wrote a book and they did not like it or me in Louisiana, they might shoot me anytime. Ernest Gaines
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist. Ernest 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 Gaines
I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel. Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines quote: "I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to..."
I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about. Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines quote: "Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing..."
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines quote: "I want you to show them the difference between what they think..."
I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be. Ernest Gaines
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. Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines quote: "Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and..."
Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One. Ernest Gaines
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is. Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines quote: "You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken."
You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken. Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines quote: "...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not."
...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not. Ernest Gaines

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