Chester Himes Quotes
- 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…
- 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…
- Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- When you get to mixing sex and religion, it will make anybody crazy.
- 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…
- I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.
- 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…