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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

#Hurt #Order #Helping

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Respect #Integrity #Gay
“I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Conscience
“Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Stars #African American #Stripes
“I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Thinking #Differences #Want
“Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Needs #Said
“You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Wind #Broken
“The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Writing #Golden #Six
“I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Believe #Character #Creating
“There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Change #Struggle #Past
“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

#Writing #Thinking #Who I Am
“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

#Heart #Artist #Blood
“Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Motivational #Mean #Action
“Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Children #People #Looks
“Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Mistake #Book #Would Be
“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

#Would Be #Levels #Beast
“And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Pieces #Earth #Woods
“We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Differences #People #World
“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

#Brother #Responsibility #Thinking
“In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#California #Soul #Louisiana
“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

#New York #Writing #Years
“All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Writing #Past #Trying
“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

#Writing #Wife #Neglect
“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

#Religious #Believe #Men
“If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Giving #Advice #Pieces
“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

#Song #People #Singing
“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

#Writing #Missing #Singing
“Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Writing #Yesterday #Pages
“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

#Eye #Men #His Eyes
“I write with as much objectivity as I can.”
-- Ernest Gaines

#Writing #Objectivity

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