31 Quotes by Ernest J. Gaines

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

it look like the lord just work for wite folks

Ain't we all been hurt by slavery?

Go and be fish again.

My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown.

Memories wasn't a place, memories was in the mind.

We ain't giving up," I said. "We done gone this far.

The sky blue blue, Mr. Wiggins.

That's man's way. To prove something. Day in, day out he must prove he is a man. Poor Fool.