A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.
We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave? - Ernest Gaines
We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?
- Ernest Gaines
You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken. - Ernest Gaines
You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.
I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience. - Ernest Gaines
I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. - Ernest Gaines
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity. - Ernest Gaines
Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing. - Ernest Gaines
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow. - Ernest Gaines
Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? - Ernest Gaines
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be. - Ernest Gaines
I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.
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