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01Undated

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

Ernest Gaines / quote

02Undated

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

Ernest Gaines / quote

03Undated

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.

Ernest Gaines / quote