American - Writer | January 15, 1933 -
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Ernest Gaines
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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.
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There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
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I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
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Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
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The mark of fear is not easily removed.
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I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
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Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
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I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
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I write with as much objectivity as I can.
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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
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In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.
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