ROUGH TRADES


“By now I was tense, on edge, what they
were saying didn’t have any meaning for
me—just some cut-rate jive in
social workers’ phraseology that proved
a certain intellectualism, I supposed. But
I didn’t have to listen to it; I was
going to get the hell out.”

                       —Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go

 


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