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1 " Memories wasn't a place, memories was in the mind. "
― Ernest J. Gaines , The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
2 " Ain't we all been hurt by slavery? "
3 " 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. "
4 " The mark of fear is not easily removed. "
― Ernest J. Gaines
5 " There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past. "
6 " Tell Nannan I walked. "
― Ernest J. Gaines , A Lesson Before Dying
7 " Darren searched for tattoos, the SS or the shape of the state of Texas branded with the Aryan Brotherhood's initials, and was surprised to see Keith's skin smooth except for sunspots and a few moles. "
8 " The sky blue blue, Mr. Wiggins. "
9 " it look like the lord just work for wite folks "
10 " That's man's way. To prove something. Day in, day out he must prove he is a man. Poor Fool. "
11 " Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? "
12 " I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be. "
13 " I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience. "
14 " How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God? "
15 " And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. "
16 " Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake. "
17 " You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken. "
― Ernest J. Gaines , Conversations with Ernest Gaines
18 " He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts. "
19 " Everything's been said, but it needs saying again. "
20 " Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave. "
