previous1next
“I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'”
“But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.”
Toni Cade Bambara, Author (1939) |
Matthew Barney, Artist (1967) |
Bela Bartok, Composer (1881) |
John Ensign, Politician (1958) |
Edward Felten, Scientist (1963) |
Elton John, Musician (1947) |
David Lean, Director (1908) |
Goodman Ace, Writer (1982) |
Roland Barthes, Critic (1980) |
Claude Debussy, Composer (1918) |
Max Eastman, Author (1969) |
Milton H. Erickson, Psychologist (1980) |
Greg Garrison, Director (2005) |
Thomas S. Gates, Jr., Public Servant (1983) |
Nunnally Johnson, Director (1977) |