Ernest Gaines

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

— Ernest Gaines

#culture #guns #hands #holding #holding hands

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

#got #grow #help #hurt #one thing

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

— Ernest Gaines

#doing #mean #nothing #only #the only thing

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

— Ernest Gaines

#everything #question #spoken #star #stripe

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

— Ernest Gaines

#change #controlled #men #past #struggling

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

#believe #better #earth #else #lie

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#alive #come #happened #i #make

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#characters #creating #i #i believe #i believe in

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

— Ernest Gaines

#feel #had #i #see #thing

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

#family #had #i #knew #neglect