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.
Quotes to Explore
-
These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
-
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
-
I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
-
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
-
There's nothing more American than movies.
-
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
-
You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
-
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
-
There's more to life than cheek bones.
-
I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.
-
I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
-
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
-
People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
-
I like a quiet life.
-
You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
-
The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
-
I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.
-
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
-
Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
-
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
-
The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.
-
Andre Recke and I and my mom worked very hard to really get good music that I related to and was age-appropriate for me and wasn't just cheesy pop stuff.
-
There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.
-
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.
