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Quotes by Ernest J. Gaines

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

Ernest J. Gaines (1933 - )
Source: interview with John O'Brien in African American Writers, 1991
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Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Ernest J. Gaines (1933 - )
Source: The Sky is Gray.
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We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

Ernest J. Gaines (1933 - )
Source: A Gathering of Old Men, 1983.
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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 (1933 - )
Source: African-American Writers, by Smith.
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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 J. Gaines (1933 - )
Source: A Gathering of Old Men, 1983.
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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Ernest J. Gaines (1933 - )
Source: The Sky is Gray.
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