My feelings are too intense. I hate bitterly, I love too exaltingly…

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

1972

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Topic

Black experience

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Time

1972

Person

Chester Himes

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

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