Quotes by Chester Himes - Page 1

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.
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Grew
Manhood
Ohio
Ohio State
States
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When you get to mixing sex and religion, it will make anybody crazy.
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Crazy
Mixing
Sex
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Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
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Men
Democracy
Tolerance
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Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
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Incidents
Progress
Revolution
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Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
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Death
Journey
Knowledge
Life
Men
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The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
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Men
Book
Real
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There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is impregnable to all assaults.
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Quality
Faces
Personality
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American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.
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Black
Form
Numbers
Public Life
Thinking
Violence
Became
Public
Detective
Detective Story
Writers
Number
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Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any other American; and is opposed to anything that aids in the exclusion; the face may be Africa, but the heart has the beat of Wall Street.
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Wall
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It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.
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Men
Civilization
Gun
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Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.
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Children
Integrity
Land
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I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.
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Absurdity
Differences
Hysterical
Realism
Stories
Writing
Blacks
Wild
Occurred
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If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.
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Life
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