Quotes by Ernest Gaines

• Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
• Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
• The mark of fear is not easily removed.
• There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
• Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
• Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.