“To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.”
“At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.”
| 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) |