"How did I know you was the cops?" she said. "I heard the noise and thought the judgment day was here; and somebody grabbed me by the legs. I thought it were the devil. You'd resist, too, if the devil had you by the legs on judgment day."

The arrested woman explains why she ran after being tackled.

— Harlem Cycle #4 - The Big Gold Dream (Chester Himes, 1959)


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