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Chester Himes has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any…
• It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could…
• 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…
• There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is…
• Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one…
• The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it…
• If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether…
• 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…
• 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…

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