"There will always be men struggling..." — Ernest Gaines

"There will always be men struggling..."

— Ernest Gaines

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52 Quotes by Ernest Gaines

Ernest Gaines has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there…
I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What…
Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect.…
"What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me…
"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."
We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to…
Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in…
You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn…
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I…
We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

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More African American Quotes

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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be… — Marcus Aurelius
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and… — Pearl Bailey
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much… — Ella Baker
The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. — Josephine Baker
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So… — James A. Baldwin
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all… — James A. Baldwin
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to… — James A. Baldwin

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