She thought then of black people . . . . And she saw them as a people powerfully, almost overwhelmingly endowed with the essence of life. They had to persist, had to survive, because they did not know how to die.
Source: Plum Bun, 1929.
-- Jessie Redmon Fauset, (Apr 27 1882-1961), US poet, novelist; She was a significant figure of the Harlem Renaissance as literary editor of The Crisis; wrote four novels, including There Is Confusion.