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If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.
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Georgie Fame, Musician (1943) |
Warren Farrell, Writer (1943) |
Milton Glaser, Designer (1929) |
Chris Isaak, Musician (1956) |
Derek Jeter, Athlete (1974) |
Lord Kelvin, Scientist (1824) |
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Businessman (1963) |
John Langdon, Politician (1741) |
Greg LeMond, Athlete (1961) |
Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Theologian (1988) |
Simon Cameron, Politician (1889) |
Roy Campanella, Athlete (1993) |
Nora Ephron, Author (2012) |
James Weldon Johnson, Poet (1938) |
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Musician (1997) |
Karl Landsteiner, Scientist (1943) |