But this—this is a ladder to climb to the stars.” Lee’s eyes shone. “You can never lose that. It cuts the feet from under weakness and cowardliness and laziness.

They did not realize that because of the quasi-reciprocal and circular nature of all Improbability calculations, anything that was Infinitely Improbable was actually very likely to happen almost immediately.

I tried to decide just how I should respond to them. Whether I should act like the teacher that I was, or like the nigger that I was supposed to be.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

We've only been living in these ghettos for seventy-five years or so, but the other three hundred years -- I think this is worth writing about. I think we've made tremendous sacrifices, we've shown tremendous strength. In the ghetto you see a lot of frustration; you see very little strength.

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

Ernest J. Gaines

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Written By Ernest J. Gaines

Written By Ernest J. Gaines

Written By Ernest J. Gaines

Written By Ernest J. Gaines

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