"There's your roll, son," he said. "Take it and find yourself another town. You're too smart for us country clicks in Harlem." When the shark opened his mouth to protest, he added roughly, "And don't say another Goddamned word or I'll knock out your teeth."

Grave Digger hands the visiting pool shark his winnings and banishes him from Harlem.

— Grave Digger in Harlem Cycle #3 - The Crazy Kill (Chester Himes, 1959)


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