I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.
Novelist, essayist, civil rights
A frequently quoted statement from interviews, emphasizing his commitment to life and struggle despite the bleak realities he often described, a personal justification for hope and engagement.
Approx. 1960s-1980s
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