“In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.”
“Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.”
| Luther Allison, Musician (1939) |
| Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman (1941) |
| Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist (1938) |
| William Carey, Clergyman (1761) |
| Belinda Carlisle, Musician (1958) |
| Larry Ellison, Businessman (1944) |
| W. Mark Felt, Public Servant (1913) |
| Marcus Garvey, Publisher (1887) |
| John C. Hawkes, Novelist (1925) |
| Dave Jones, Coach (1956) |
| Conrad Aiken, Author (1973) |
| Pearl Bailey, Actress (1990) |
| Ruth First, Activist (1982) |
| Duncan Forbes, Writer (1868) |
| Ira Gershwin, Musician (1983) |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer (1935) |
| Moses Hadas, Writer (1966) |
| Fernand Leger, Artist (1955) |