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 ma — James Baldwin
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 ma — James Baldwin
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 ma — James Baldwin
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 ma — James Baldwin
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 ma — James Baldwin
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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.

— James Baldwin
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