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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 Gaines
That's man's way. To prove something. Day in, day out he must prove he is a man. Poor Fool.
— Ernest J. 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
Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.
— Ernest Gaines
The mark of fear is not easily removed.
— Ernest Gaines
All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
— Ernest Gaines
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
— Ernest Gaines
We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?
— 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 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
I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.
— Ernest Gaines
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
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
I write with as much objectivity as I can.
— Ernest Gaines
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
— Ernest Gaines
We must live with our own conscience. Each and every one of us must live with his own conscience.
— Ernest J. 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
You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.
— Ernest Gaines
Ain't we all been hurt by slavery?
— Ernest J. Gaines
Go and be fish again.
— Ernest J. 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
The sky blue blue, Mr. Wiggins.
— Ernest J. Gaines
We ain't giving up," I said. "We done gone this far.
— Ernest J. Gaines
Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
— Ernest Gaines
Memories wasn't a place, memories was in the mind.
— Ernest J. Gaines
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
— 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
I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.
— Ernest Gaines
...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.
— Ernest J. 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 J. Gaines
He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.
— Ernest Gaines
How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
— Ernest Gaines
Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.
— Ernest Gaines
