“I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.”
“But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.”
| Phillip Adams, Writer (1939) |
| Eric Carr, Musician (1950) |
| Lisa Nicole Carson, Actress (1969) |
| Lord Edward Cecil, Soldier (1867) |
| George Eastman, Inventor (1854) |
| Ron Fairly, Athlete (1938) |
| Robert Fisk, Journalist (1946) |
| Tim Gane, Musician (1964) |
| Gareth Gates, Musician (1984) |
| Oscar Hammerstein, Writer (1895) |
| Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist (1946) |
| Benny Carter, Musician (2003) |
| Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher (1536) |
| L. Wolfe Gilbert, Musician (1970) |
| Alexander Hamilton, Politician (1804) |