He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
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| Trishelle Cannatella, Celebrity (1979) |
| Art Carney, Actor (1918) |
| Puff Daddy, Musician (1970) |
| Stephen J. Field, Judge (1816) |
| Luis Figo, Athlete (1972) |
| Ruth Handler, Businesswoman (1916) |
| Daisy Bates, Activist (1999) |
| Humphrey Carpenter, Author (2005) |
| Gilles Deleuze, Philosopher (1995) |
| Eugene Field, Poet (1895) |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Artist (1894) |

