I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals … - Ernest Gaines - Quotesmemo.com

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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

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Ernest Gaines

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.

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I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

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Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

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