Be your age, Digger. This is a sporting house. If I don't let a white john with money come here, I must have good reasons. And if I want to keep my other white clients I'd better not say what they are. You can't close me up and you can't make me talk, so why don't you let it go at that?

Reba refuses to explain why she barred Galen from her brothel.

— Reba in Harlem Cycle #2 - The Real Cool Killers (Chester Himes, 1959)


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