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“What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.”
“If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen.”
| Luther Allison, Musician (1939) |
| Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman (1941) |
| Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist (1938) |
| William Carey, Clergyman (1761) |
| Belinda Carlisle, Musician (1958) |
| Larry Ellison, Businessman (1944) |
| W. Mark Felt, Public Servant (1913) |
| Marcus Garvey, Publisher (1887) |
| John C. Hawkes, Novelist (1925) |
| Dave Jones, Coach (1956) |
| Conrad Aiken, Author (1973) |
| Pearl Bailey, Actress (1990) |
| Ruth First, Activist (1982) |
| Duncan Forbes, Writer (1868) |
| Ira Gershwin, Musician (1983) |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer (1935) |
| Moses Hadas, Writer (1966) |
| Fernand Leger, Artist (1955) |