Speed gave him power and made him feel as mighty as Joe Louis. He had his long arms wrapped about the steering wheel and his big foot jammed on the gas, thinking of how he could drive that goddam DeSoto taxicab straight off the mother-raping earth.

Describing the black taxi driver tearing through icy streets to the Bronx.

— Harlem Cycle #1 - A Rage in Harlem (Chester Himes, 1957)


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