“ There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past. Ernest Gaines
“ The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist. Ernest Gaines
“ I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard he… Ernest Gaines
“ What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my… Ernest Gaines
“ Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? Ernest Gaines
