Creative Quotations from . . .
Ernest J. Gaines
(1933-____) born on Jan 15
US author. "He wrote the novel, "The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," 1971; won Book Critics"
 
   
F
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.

R
"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything."
A
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
N
Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
K
"We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?"


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "African-American Writers," by Smith."
R: ""The Sky is Gray.""
A: ""The Sky is Gray.""
N: ""A Gathering of Old Men," 1983."
K: ""A Gathering of Old Men," 1983."



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