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| Chester Himes, novelist |
Old Fat Ugly Whore |
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I was sixteen years old and still a virgin. I remember standing behind the curtains of our parlor windows and masturbating at the sight of the big-titted Jewish girls when they came out of school.
I took a job in Wade Park Manor — a chichi hotel overlooking Wade Park — as a busboy . . . Two young women sat in a glass booth facing the elevators and checked the trays of the room service waiters before they went upstairs. The young women were good-looking and white. Most of the young black waiters flirted with them [and] from the first day, the girls began flirting with me.
It was during that week that I lost my virginity. They got me so excited that I was no longer satisfied with masturbation; I went to the black ghetto and paid money to an old fat ugly whore sitting on a stool outside her hovel on Scovil. (Cleveland, Ohio, 1925)
from The Quality of Hurt: The Autobiography of Chester Himes: Volume I (Doubleday, © 1972)
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