People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.
“I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.”
“Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.”