Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 04. Januar 1883 |
Geburtsort | Canandaigua, New York, US |
Todesort | Bridgetown |
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Beschreibung | Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883 – March 25, 1969) was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society, a poet and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, he co-founded in 1917 The Liberator, a radical magazine of politics and the arts. |
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
