Quotes by Ernest Gaines

Ernest Gaines

“You going back,” she said. “You ain’t going to run away from this, Grant.”

Dying

Running

Said

And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier. They are fifty years younger, maybe more, but doing the same thing those old men did who never attended school a day in their lives. Is it just a vicious circle? Am I doing anything?

Men

School

Years

Don’t tell me to believe. Don’t tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don’t tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.

Aunt

Believe

Country

He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

Beast

Levels

Would Be

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

Feels

Wanted

Writing

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.

Believe

Men

Religious

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

Differences

Thinking

Want

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

Home

Wanted

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.

Brother

Responsibility

Thinking

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.

Thinking

Who I Am

Writing

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California

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Giving

Golden

Heart

Home

I Can

Levels

Louisiana

Mark

May

Men

Objectivity

People

Pieces

Religious

Responsibility

Running

Said

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Singing

Six

Song

Soul

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Waiting

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Quotes by Ernest Gaines

Ernest Gaines

“You going back,” she said. “You ain’t going to run away from this, Grant.”

He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

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.

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

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

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.

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