"Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There……" — Ernest Gaines
"Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would."
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52 Quotes by Ernest Gaines
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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
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"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."
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Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in…
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The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
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We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?
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