Monday, February 19, 2007

Chester Himes


Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life.


If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.


Chester Himes


1909-1984

(1901) William Hooper Councill’s Letter to the White People of Alabama

  Most scholars of today imagine Booker T. Washington as the major accommodationist and black political conservative of the era.  There we...