"Don't play with me," Grave Digger said with a sudden show of anger. "This ain't the movies; this is real. A white man has been killed in Harlem and Harlem is my beat. I'll take you down to the station and turn a dozen white cops loose on you and they'll work you over until the black comes off."

Threatening Big Smiley to give up a name in the murder investigation.

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


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