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Chester Himes Quotes

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.

Chester Himes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 29, 1909 - November 12, 1984

Topics

Life Story Black Think American Go

No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.

Andrew Sullivan

American Choose Country Between

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

John Podhoretz

Politics Go Way President Mud Above

I feel albino musicians could neutralise all the racial problems.

Sly Stone

Problems Feel Musicians Racial Could

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

Tom Stoppard

Life Me Strike Being Event State

I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really well like in 'The Ruins', it pays homage to some of the stuff I really love in the '70s and incurs some of that energy the fanbase really wants to see.

Jonathan Tucker

Love Blessed Energy Think Done See

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

Donald Norman

Learning Impossible Write First Tie

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

Alice Munro

Baby First Had Twenty-One

The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed.

Peter Landesman

Museums Temple Source Most Shelves

When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.

Tyra Banks

Think Feel Donald Trump Serious Way

El Santo's movies were kind of out there, but Mil Mascaras did the more reality-based type sci-fi movies. You could say he was one of the first to open the notion for those that subscribe to the mentality that this is sports-entertainment.

Rey Mysterio

You Say Movies Kind More First

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

Morley Callaghan

Life Identity Think Short Silly Own

I'd always been close to my brother. Very close.

Mark Ruffalo

Brother Always Close Been Very