Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines
Ernest James Gainesis an African-American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. Four of his works have been made into television movies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 January 1933
CountryUnited States of America
motivational respect integrity
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
stars african-american stripes
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
mistake book would-be
Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
woods pieces earth
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.
motivational mean action
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
wind broken
You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.
california soul body
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.
religious believe men
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.
teacher enemy dying
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.
struggle men african-american
There will always be men struggling...