"Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would."

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Ernest Gaines

#Teacher Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Dying Quotes

“My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the stars are all as small as three-penny bits. I don't really believe in astronomy, except as a complicated description of part of the course of human and possibly animal sensation. I apply my perspective not merely to space but also to time. In time the world will cool and everything will die; but that is a long time off still and its present value at compound discount is almost nothing.”
“All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.”
“Iâ€™m always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.”
“Iâ€™m not saying she was very silly, but one of us was very silly and it wasnâ€™t me.”
“I don't earn my money from trying to hurt people or get in the tabloids.”
“Everything is a possibility. I believe we're put on this earth to think big and dream big.”
“You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.”
“In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought wed come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.”

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