People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
| Vicente Aleixandre, Poet (1898) |
| Cass Canfield, Publisher (1897) |
| Alice Cary, Poet (1820) |
| Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Writer (1916) |
| Eugene Delacroix, Artist (1798) |
| Giancarlo Esposito, Actor (1958) |
| April Glaspie, Diplomat (1942) |
| Kevin James, Comedian (1965) |
| Curtis Jones, Musician (1968) |
| Greg Laswell, Musician (1974) |
| Hasil Adkins, Musician (2005) |
| Lucille Ball, Comedian (1989) |
| Count Basie, Musician (1984) |
| Augusto Roa Bastos, Novelist (2005) |
| Jill Dando, Journalist (1999) |
| Celia Johnson, Actress (1982) |
| Corliss Lamont, Philosopher (1995) |
| David Lavender, Historian (2003) |

