Chester Himes (55 page)
Authors: James Sallis
3
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Writin' Is Fightin'
, p. 123.
4
.
My Life of Absurdity
, p. 391.
5
.
The Quality of Hurt
, pp. 65â66.
6
. Muller, p. ix.
7
.
Conversations with Chester Himes
, p. 68.
8
. Lundquist, p. 117.
9
.
The Harlem Cycle
, Vol. 3, p. 379;Vintage, p. 191.
10
.
My Life of Absurdity
, p. 106.
11
.
Cakes and Ale
(New York and London: Penguin Books, 1988), pp. 201â202.
12
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 4.
13
. Ibid., p. 5.
14
.
The Third Generation
(Signet), p. 26.
15
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 22.
16
.
The Third Generation
, p. 26.
17
. Ibid., p. 38.
18
. Ibid., p. 37.
19
. Ibid., p. 32.
20
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 4.
21
. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, Feb. 18, 1947, Yale.
22
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 5.
23
. “The Dilemma of the Negro Writer in America,”
The Harlem Cycle
, Vol. 2, p. xii.
24
.
The Souls of Black Folk
, p. 215.
25
. From diploma, quoted in Fabre/Margolies, p. 5.
26
. “The Atlanta Compromise”, 1895.
27
. “East St. Louis Riots”,
Report of the Special Committee Document No. 1231
, 65th Congress, 2nd Session.
28
. Ibid.
29
. Claude McKay, “If We Must Die,”
Selected Poems of Claude McKay
(New York: Bookman Associates, 1953), p. 36.
30
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 8.
31
.
The Third Generation
, p. 117.
32
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 13.
33
.
The Third Generation
, p. 142.
34
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 14.
35
. Ibid., p. 13.
36
.
The Third Generation
, p. 143.
37
. Ibid., p. 153.
38
. Ibid., p. 155.
39
. Ibid., pp. 155â56.
40
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 16.
41
.
The Third Generation
, p. 184.
42
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 16.
43
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Which Way Did He Go?
, p. 55.
44
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The Quality of Hurt
, p. 47.
45
.
The Third Generation
, p. 200.
46
. Ibid., p. 201.
47
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 18.
48
. Ibid., p. 20.
49
.
The Third Generation
, p. 221.
50
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The Quality of Hurt
, p. 24.
51
. Ibid., p. 25.
52
. Ibid., p. 27.
53
.
The Third Generation
, p. 235.
54
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 28.
55
. Ibid., p. 29.
56
.
The Third Generation
, p. 245.
57
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 31.
58
. Ibid., p. 36.
59
. Ibid., pp. 37â38.
60
. Ibid., p. 38.
61
. Ibid., p. 39.
62
. Ibid., p. 42.
63
. Ibid., p. 47.
64
. Ibid.
65
. Ibid.
66
. Ibid.
67
. Ibid., p. 51.
68
.
Collected Stories
, p. 173 (“Prison Mass”).
69
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 52.
70
. Ibid., p. 56.
71
. Milliken, p. 22.
72
.
Cast the First Stone
, p. 19.
2.59623
1
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Crisis
, May 1919, “Returning Soldiers” (editorial).
2
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The Quality of Hurt
, p. 60.
3
. Ibid., p. 60.
4
.
Prison Literature in America
, p. 210.
5
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The Quality of Hurt
, p. 61.
6
. Ibid., pp. 65â66.
7
. Ibid., p. 3.
8
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Cast the First Stone
, p. 20.
9
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The Quality of Hurt
, p. 61.
10
. Ibid., p. 117.
11
.
My Life of Absurdity
, p. 125.
12
.
Cast the First Stone
, p. 19.
13
. Milliken, p. 136.
14
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 62.
15
. Ibid., p. 62.
16
. Ibid., p. 65.
17
.
Collected Stories
, p. 191.
18
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 64.
19
.
Cast the First Stone
, p. 124.
20
. Introduction to
The Harlem Cycle
, Vol. 1, p. x.
21
. Joe Himes to Bob Skinner, quoted in
Two Guns from Harlem
, p. 10.
22
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 64.
23
. Ibid., p. 64.
24
. Milliken, p. 40.
25
. Skinner p. 11.
26
. Milliken, p. 32.
27
.
Stories
, p. 148.
28
.
Esquire
, Aug. 1934, p. 28.
29
. Ibid., Oct. 1934, p. 10. A different version appears in
Stories
, pp. 283â84.
30
.
Cast the First Stone
, p. 137.
31
.
Blind Man with a Pistol
, Vintage p. 73;
The Harlem Cycle
, Vol. 3, p. 261.
32
.
Pinktoes
, p. 109.
33
.
Conversations
, p. 77.
34
.
Black on Black
, p. 132.
35
.
Conversations
, p. 59.
36
.
Abbott's Weekly and Illustrated News
, December 1933, quoted in Milliken.
37
.
Cast the First Stone
, p. 112.
38
. Ibid., p. 126.
39
. Ibid., p. 302.
40
. Ms. version of novel, Yale, p. 382.
41
. Ibid.
42
. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, Feb. 18, 1947, Yale/Amistad.
43
. Milliken, p. 1.
44
.
Cast the First Stone
, p. 303.
45
.
Conversations
, p. 23.
3. “One Way to Be a Nigger”
1
. “A Nigger,”
Black on Black
, p. 132.
2
.
Stories
, p. 213 (“The Meanest Cop in the World”).
3
. Ibid., p. 55 (“With Malice Toward None”).
4
. Ibid., p. 24 (“All God's Chillun Got Pride”).
5
. Ibid.
6
.
If He Hollers
, p. 2.
7
.
Stories
, p. 364 (“Daydream”).
8
. Ibid, pp. 370â71 (“Da-Da-Dee”).
9
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The Quality of Hurt
, p. 66.
10
. Ibid., p. 67.
11
. Ibid., p. 66.
12
. Ibid.
13
. Fabre and Margolies, p. 40.
14
. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, Sept. 13, 1946, Yale.
15
. “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,”
Nation
122, summer 1926, pp. 692â94.
16
. “It's About Time,” Langston Hughes papers at Beinecke Library, James Weldon Johnson Collection, Yale University; quoted in Rampersand,
The Life of Langston Hughes
, Vol. 2, p. 119.
17
.
The Life of Langston Hughes
, p. 134.
18
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 71; Chester Himes to John A. Williams, Oct. 31, 1962, quoted in Skinner, p. 12.
19
. Ibid., p. 71.
20
. Quoted in Milliken, p. 31, from telephone conversation with Moody.
21
. Seid to Fabre, 1988, quoted in Fabre and Margolies, p. 43.
22
. Levin to Margolies, 1998, quoted in Fabre and Margolies, p. 44.
23
.
Stories
, p. 55.
24
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 72.
25
. Ibid., p. 133.
4. The Things a Writing Man Will Do
1
. E. B. White, “Book Review,”
The Second Tree from the Corner
(New York: Harper & Row, 1948).
2
.
Conversations
, p. 53.
3
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The Quality of Hurt
, p. 74.
4
. Ibid., p. 73.
5
.
Conversations
, pp. 55â56.
6
. Ibid., p. 56.
7
. Ibid., p. 14.
8
.
Black on Black
, p. 224 (“Zoot Riots Are Race Riots”)
9
. Milliken, p. 61.
10
.
Conversations
, pp. 53â54.
11
. Chester Himes to John A. Williams, Oct. 31, 1962, Rochester, quoted in Fabre and Margolies, p. 48.
12
.
Conversations
, pp. 53â54.
13
. Milliken, p. 60.
14
. Ibid., p. 65.
15
.
A Fan's Notes
(New York: Vintage, 1998), p. 359.
16
.
Stories
, p. xi.
17
.
Shrovetide in Old New Orleans
, p. 95.
18
.
Conversations
, pp. 33â34.
19
. Ibid., pp. 33â34.
20
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 75.
21
. Ibid., pp. 75â76.
5. Round Us Bark the Mad and Hungry Dogs
1
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 76.
2
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Invisible Man
, p. 3.
3
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 76.
4
. Constance Webb Pearlstein to James Sallis, Dec. 10, 1998.
5
. Milliken, p. 74.
6
.
Conversations
, p. 14.
7
. Skinner, p. 15.
8
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The Quality of Hurt
, p. 77.
9
. Milliken, p. 71.
10
.
The Quality of Hurt
, pp. 76â77.
11
. Ibid., p. 93.
12
. Ibid.
13
. Ibid., p. 13.
14
.
Conversations
, p. 37.
15
. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, June 10, 1946, Amistad.
16
.
The Most Native of Sons
, p. 81.
17
. Ibid., p. 93.
18
. Ibid., pp. 94â95.
19
. Richard Wright,
The Long Dream
(New York: Harper & Row, 1958/1987), p. 290.
20
. Margaret Walker,
Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius
(New York: Warner Books, 1988), p. 307.
21
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 77.
6. “I'm Still Here”
1
.
If He Hollers
, p.1.
2
. Ibid., p. 153.
3
. Ibid., p. 2.
4
. Introduction to
If He Hollers
, p. ix.
5
.
Prison Literature in America
, pp. 206â207.
6
. Ibid., p. 227.
7
.
Conversations
, p. 15.
8
.
The Negro Novel in America
, p. 174.
9
. Lundquist, p. 46.
10
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If He Hollers
, p. 124.
11
. Ibid., p. 4.
12
. Lundquist, pp. 29â30.
13
.
If He Hollers
, pp. 120â21.
14
. Ibid., pp. 3â4.
15
.
The Negro Novel in America
, p. 174.
16
. Muller, p. 28.
17
.
If He Hollers
, pp. 35â36.
18
. Ibid., p. 38.
19
. Ibid., p. 74.
20
. Ibid., pp. 84â89.
21
. Ibid., p. 101.
22
. Ibid., pp. 127â28.
23
. Ibid., pp. 150â51.
24
. Ibid., p. 152.
25
.
Conversations
, p. 86.
26
. New York
Herald Tribune Book Review
, Nov. 4, 1945.
27
.
Common Ground
, Summer 1946.
28
.
Crisis
, Dec. 1945.
29
.
American Mercury
, Feb. 1946.
30
. Earl Conrad,
Chicago Defender
, Dec. 22, 1945, “The Blues School of Literature.”
31
.
The Negro Novel in America
, p. 173.
32
. Gerald Houghton to James Sallis, March 17, 1999.
33
. Chester Himes to Richard Wright, Oct. 19, 1952, Yale.
34
.
Conversations
, p. 144.
35
.
Richard Wright Reader
, p. 425.
36
.
If He Hollers
, p. 88.
37
. “The Dilemma of the Negro Novelist in America,”
The Harlem Cycle
, Vol. 2, p. xiv.