My feelings are too intense. I hate bitterly, I love too exaltingly, I pity to extravagantly, I hurt too painfully. We American blacks call that "soul."

Chester Himes

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Topic

Black experience

Author

Chester Himes

Source

The Quality of Hurt

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Himes, Chester. The Quality of Hurt: The Autobiography of Chester Himes. Vol. 1, Doubleday, 1972.

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