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I love Samuel R Delaney, as in, "I feel like I am blessed to be alive in a world he is also alive in." This interview is from 2011. It gets at a lot of the reasons.

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6088/the-art-of-fiction-no-210-samuel-r-delany

This led me to a couple more worthwhile pieces by/about him.

http://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/samuel-r-delany-ash-wednesday ("experimental memoir," sexually explicit, from 2017)

http://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/junot-d%C3%ADaz-samuel-r-delany-radicalism-begins-body (interview with Junot Díaz, also from 2017)