Preston Maness ☭<p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/kuper-jules-feiffer-95-interview/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenation.com/article/culture/</span><span class="invisible">kuper-jules-feiffer-95-interview/</span></a></p><p>Interesting juxtaposition in this short interview from Peter Kuper with Jules Feiffer:</p><p>>So many of the conversations I had with some of the people, particularly Black and brown people, I knew at that time were: “What’s next? What do we do?” And it wasn’t as if we ever helped each other learn anything in particular. But we gave each other a sense of support that we certainly needed, because we felt very much in a minority, and very much in the right.<br>><br>>...<br>><br>>Failure is a big part of my process. And the title of my next book is My License to Fail. That’s an important recognition and an important statement: that in order to succeed, I have to be ready to fail at everything. And it took me years to do this, not as a judgment but as a process.</p><p>And also:</p><p>>Kuper: You’ve managed to keep working despite things not changing much in society—or sometimes getting worse. Has there still been a glimmer of optimism in the process?<br>><br>>Feiffer: I think there used to be, certainly when I was younger, more optimism than there is now. But I can’t say that I’m a pessimist now. I think it’s an endless fight, and it goes on. Endless fights go on endlessly.</p><p>"Endless fights go on endlessly."</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/TheNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheNation</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Nation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nation</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/JulesFeiffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JulesFeiffer</span></a></p>