Ernest Gaines Men Quotations

Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up every day to face a job or a white boss you don't like but have to face to feed your children so they'll grow up to be a better generation.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

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.

There will always be men struggling...

I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier. They are fifty years younger, maybe more, but doing the same thing those old men did who never attended school a day in their lives. Is it just a vicious circle? Am I doing anything?

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.