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I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.
— Ernest Gaines
Tags: responsibility, food, me, life

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I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
— Ernest Gaines
Tags: i-believe, tell, story, believe
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
— Ernest Gaines
Tags: things, society, man, eyes
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
— Ernest Gaines
Tags: every, star, question, everything
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
— Ernest Gaines
Tags: must, try, you, good
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
Tags: grow, sometimes, hurt, you
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