How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
Ernest GainesThe 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 GainesYou learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.
Ernest Gaines