Ernest Gaines Quotes

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
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

The mark of fear is not easily removed.
Ernest Gaines

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

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

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
Ernest Gaines