Ernest Gaines Quotes

"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
(Related: Help, Hurt, Order)

"The mark of fear is not easily removed."
- Ernest Gaines
(Related: Fear)

"There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past."
- Ernest Gaines
(Related: Men, Change, Past, Will)

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"
- Ernest Gaines
(Related: Men, Culture)

"Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing."
- Ernest Gaines
(Related: Action, Nothing, Words)