“I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.”
“I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.”
| Siobhan Fahey, Musician (1957) |
| Colin Firth, Actor (1960) |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Artist (1834) |
| Amy Irving, Actress (1953) |
| Georgia Douglas Johnson, Poet (1880) |
| Randy Johnson, Athlete (1963) |
| Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Politician (1949) |
| Karl Lagerfeld, Designer (1938) |
| Jack Ma, Businessman (1964) |
| John W. Dawson, Politician (1877) |
| Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Educator (1976) |