“African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.”
“I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.”
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| Rick Barry, Athlete (1944) |
| Daniel Dennett, Philosopher (1942) |
| Richard Eyre, Director (1943) |
| Lady Gaga, Musician (1986) |
| Nafisa Joseph, Model (1978) |
| Karen Kain, Dancer (1951) |
| Corliss Lamont, Philosopher (1902) |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower, President (1969) |
| Dorothy Fields, Musician (1974) |
| William Christopher Handy, Musician (1958) |
| Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist (1994) |
| Emmett Kelly, Entertainer (1979) |
| Stephen Leacock, Economist (1944) |