Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
Paul Cellucci, Politician (1948) |
Richard M. Daley, Politician (1942) |
Jean Paul Gaultier, Designer (1952) |
Jim Geringer, Politician (1944) |
Jill Ireland, Actress (1936) |
Jack Kingston, Politician (1955) |
Bud Abbott, Actor (1974) |
Felix Adler, Educator (1933) |
Harry Banks, Soldier (1915) |
Alejo Carpentier, Novelist (1980) |
Willa Cather, Author (1947) |
James Thomas Fields, Publisher (1881) |
G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist (1924) |
Granville Stanley Hall, Psychologist (1924) |
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Writer (2002) |
Louis A. Johnson, Public Servant (1966) |