The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
“Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.”
“I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?”