Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
Source: America.
-- Claude McKay, (Sep 15 1889-1984), Jamaican-US poet, novelist; His Harlem Shadows was one of the inaugural works of file Harlem Renaissance; his novels include Home to Harlem and Banana Bottom.