by James Sallis
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. 155–56.
40. The Quality of Hurt, p. 16.
41. The Third Generation, p. 184.
42. The Quality of Hurt, p. 16.
43. Which Way Did He Go?, p. 55.
44. 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. 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. 37–38.
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. Crisis, May 1919, “Returning Soldiers” (editorial).
2. The Quality of Hurt, p. 60.
3. Ibid., p. 60.
4. Prison Literature in America, p. 210.
5. The Quality of Hurt, p. 61.
6. Ibid., pp. 65–66.
7. Ibid., p. 3.
8. Cast the First Stone, p. 20.
9. 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. 283–84.
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. 370–71 (“Da-Da-Dee”).
9. 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. 692–94.
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. The Quality of Hurt, p. 74.
4. Ibid., p. 73.
5. Conversations, pp. 55–56.
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. 53–54.
11. Chester Himes to John A. Williams, Oct. 31, 1962, Rochester, quoted in Fabre and Margolies, p. 48.
12. Conversations, pp. 53–54.
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. 33–34.
19. Ibid., pp. 33–34.
20. The Quality of Hurt, p. 75.
21. Ibid., pp. 75–76.
5. Round Us Bark the Mad and Hungry Dogs
1. The Quality of Hurt, p. 76.
2. 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. The Quality of Hurt, p. 77.
9. Milliken, p. 71.
10. The Quality of Hurt, pp. 76–77.
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.
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br /> 16. The Most Native of Sons, p. 81.
17. Ibid., p. 93.
18. Ibid., pp. 94–95.
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. 206–207.
6. Ibid., p. 227.
7. Conversations, p. 15.
8. The Negro Novel in America, p. 174.
9. Lundquist, p. 46.
10. If He Hollers, p. 124.
11. Ibid., p. 4.
12. Lundquist, pp. 29–30.
13. If He Hollers, pp. 120–21.
14. Ibid., pp. 3–4.
15. The Negro Novel in America, p. 174.
16. Muller, p. 28.
17. If He Hollers, pp. 35–36.
18. Ibid., p. 38.
19. Ibid., p. 74.
20. Ibid., pp. 84–89.
21. Ibid., p. 101.
22. Ibid., pp. 127–28.
23. Ibid., pp. 150–51.
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.
7. A Street He Could Understand
1. Hardboiled America, p. 16.
2. The Quality of Hurt, p. 93.
3. Stories, pp. 365, 370–71.
4. Ibid., p. 369.
5. The Quality of Hurt, p. 78.
6. Ibid., p. 84.
7. Ibid., p. 92.
8. Ibid., p. 93.
9. “Chester Himes—The Ethics of Ambiguity: An Interview with Joseph Sandy Himes, Jr.” in Xavier Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 1994.
10. The Quality of Hurt, p. 93.
11. Ibid., p. 95.
12. Ibid.
13. “The Average,” W. H. Auden: Selected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), p. 105.
14. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, Feb. 28, 1947, Yale.
15. Ibid., Feb. 18, 1947, Yale.
16. Ibid., May 23, 1947, Yale.
17. Robert Frost, “The Fear of God,” Selected Poems (San Francisco: Rinehart Press, 1963), p. 258.
18. The Quality of Hurt, p. 99.
19. Lundquist, p. 13.
20. New Masses, Sept. 9, 1947.
21. Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1947.
22. New York Times Book Review, Sept. 14, 1947.
23. The New Yorker, Sept. 13, 1947.
24. The New Republic, Oct. 6, 1947.
25. Saturday Review of Literature, Oct. 25, 1947.
26. New York Herald Tribune, Sept. 7, 1947.
27. The Life of Langston Hughes, p. 134.
28. The Quality of Hurt, p. 101.
29. Fabre and Margolies, p. 66.
30. Conversations, pp. 39–40.
31. The Quality of Hurt, pp. 101–102.
32. Ibid., p. 101.
33. Ibid., p. 103.
8. Going Too Far and Too Far Gone
1. Lonely Crusade, p. 207.
2. Fabre and Margolies, p. 65.
3. Muller, pp. 37–38.
4. Milliken, p. 97.
5. Ibid., p. 108.
6. Ibid., p. 112.
7. The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition, p. 177.
8. Muller, p. 36.
9. Lonely Crusade, p. 129.
10. Ibid., p. 3.
11. Ibid., p. 354.
12. Milliken, p. 99.
13. “The Well Dressed Man with a Beard,” The Palm at the End of the Mind (New York: Vintage, 1990), p. 190.
14. Lonely Crusade, p. 328.
15. Muller, p. 30.
16. “I Tried to Be a Communist,” Atlantic Monthly, August 1944.
17. Lonely Crusade, p. 85.
18. Ibid., p. 32.
19. Ibid., p. 39.
20. Ibid., p. 40.
21. Ibid., p. 39.
22. Ibid., p. 4.
23. Ibid., p. 7.
24. Ibid., p. 187.
25. Ibid., pp. 7, 8, 122.
26. Ibid., p. 279.
27. Ibid., p. 28.
28. Ibid., p. 133.
29. Ibid., p. 149.
30. Ibid., p. 60.
31. Ibid., p. 61.
32. Ibid., p. 33.
33. Ibid., pp. 33–34.
34. Ibid., p. 14.
35. Ibid., pp. 48–49.
36. Invisible Man, p. 244.
37. Lonely Crusade, p. 361.
38. Invisible Man, p. 347.
39. Lonely Crusade, p. 75.
40. Ibid., p. 70.
41. Ibid., p. 328.
42. Ibid., p. 327.
43. Milliken, p. 5.
9. “I Don’t Have That Much Imagination”
1. The End of a Primitive, p. 36.
2. The Quality of Hurt, p. 117.
3. Ibid., p. 103.
4. Ibid.
5. “The City,” Collected Poems (New Jersey: Princeton University Press), 1992; paraphrased.
6. Stories, p. 367 (“Da-Da-Dee”).
7. Ibid., p. 365.
8. Ibid., p. 370.
9. The Quality of Hurt, p. 104.
10. Ibid., p. 104.
11. Conversations, p. 73.
12. The Quality of Hurt, p. 104.
13. Ibid., p. 105.
14. Ibid.
15. The Primitive, pp. 72–73.
16. Ibid., pp. 142–143.
17. Conversation with Norlisha Crawford.
18. The Primitive, pp. 93–94.
19. Reproduced from The End of a Primitive, p. 126.
20. The Primitive, p. 102.
21. The Quality of Hurt, p. 115.
22. Ibid., p. 131.
23. Ibid., p. 74.
24. Ibid., p. 112.
25. Ibid., p. 114.
26. The Primitive, pp. 74–75.
27. Ibid., p. 160.
28. Xavier Review interview.
29. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, Nov. 23, 1952, Yale.
30. The Quality of Hurt, p. 133.
31. Xavier Review interview.
32. Ibid., pp. 13–14.
33. Ibid., p. 13.
34. Conversations, p. 3.
35. The Quality of Hurt, p. 135.
10. Literature Will Not Save You
1. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, Nov. 23, 1952, Yale.
2. The Quality of Hurt, p. 135.
3. Ibid., pp. 136, 135.
4. Ibid., p. 136.
5. Lonely Crusade, p. 91.
6. The Quality of Hurt, p. 136.
7. The Primitive, p. 6.
8. Ibid., p. 19.
9. Ibid., p. 22.
10. Ibid., p. 23.
11. Ibid., p. 25.
12. Ibid., p. 22.
13. The Quality of Hurt, p. 139.
14. Ibid., p. 136.
15. Ibid., p. 137.
16. Ibid., pp. 137–38.
17. Ibid., p. 139.
18. Invisible Man, p. 3.
19. Carl Van Vechten to John A. Williams, Nov. 6, 1962, Yale.
20. Editors’ Note, Yesterday Will Make You Cry, p. 8.
/> 21. Saturday Review of Literature, Jan. 17, 1953.
22. The New York Times, Jan. 18, 1953.
23. New York Herald Tribune, Jan. 18, 1953.
24. Milliken, p. 137.
25. Ibid., p. 136.
26. Introduction to Yesterday Will Make You Cry, p. 19.
27. Book World, Feb. 20, 1998.
28. Publishers Weekly, Nov. 24, 1997.
29. Yesterday Will Make You Cry, p. 363.
11. European Experience
1. The Quality of Hurt, p. 161.
2. Ibid., p. 179.
3. Ibid., p. 140.
4. Ibid., p. 144.
5. Paris Interzone, p. 120; From Harlem to Paris, p. 216.
6. Unpublished manuscript, quoted in From Harlem to Paris, p. 218.
7. From Harlem to Paris, p. 216.
8. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, Nov. 29, 1962, quoted in My Life of Absurdity, p. 252.
9. The Quality of Hurt, p. 351.
10. Ibid., p. 162.
11. Ibid., p. 170.
12. Ibid., pp. 165, 166.
13. Ibid., pp. 169, 168.
14. Ibid., p. 224.
15. Interview with Fabre, quoted in From Harlem to Paris, p. 243.
16. The Quality of Hurt, p. 185.
17. Conversations, p. 1.
18. Ibid., p. 3.
19. Ibid.
20. The Quality of Hurt, p. 190.
21. Ibid., p. 191.
22. Ibid., p. 192.
23. Ibid., pp. 196–97.
24. “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” The Price of the Ticket, p. 33.
25. Ibid., p. 276 (“Alas, Poor Richard”).
26. “The Position of the Negro Artist and Intellectual in American Society,” Yale.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. The Price of the Ticket, p. 278.
30. The Quality of Hurt, p. 200.
31. Conversations, p. 139.
32. The Man Who Cried I Am, p. 217.
33. Ibid., p. 218.
34. Ibid., p. 219.
35. The Quality of Hurt, p. 208.
36. Conversations, pp. 6–7.
37. The Quality of Hurt, p. 219.
38. Ibid., p. 224.
39. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, June 1, 1953, Yale.
40. The Quality of Hurt, p. 226.
41. Ibid., p. 233.
42. Ibid., p. 243.
43. My Life of Absurdity, p. 14; The Quality of Hurt, p. 265.
12. Story-Shaped Life
1. Confessions of Zeno (New York: Vintage Books, 1958), p. 332.
2. The Quality of Hurt, p. 257.
3. Ibid., p. 256.
4. Ibid., p. 260.
5. Chester Himes to Yves Malartic, Oct. 21, 1953, quoted in Fabre and Margolies, p. 82.
6. Conversation with Lesley Himes.
7. The Quality of Hurt, p. 302.
8. Pharos and Pharillon (New York: Knopf, 1962), p. 96; “Half an Hour” from Collected Poems (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992).
9. The Quality of Hurt, p. 286.
10. Ibid., p. 285.
11. Chicago Tribune Review of Books, Jan. 10, 1954.
